On 05/13/2014 01:42 AM Joshua Anthony wrote:
My apologies to those who feel that I have wasted their time and thanks
to those who have tried to help.
I don't know how I managed to start two threads but this whole business
well illustrates the confusion that I originally wrote about.
The 'technical' question was 'Why does exactly following the process
that has worked perfectly well for other distros, using exactly the same
hardware, fail when I try to install Debian the same way?'
The confusion was - and is - how do I separate my rather elementary and
unsophisticated question from the mass of expert questions from
sophisticated users so as to get an answer I can understand without
irritating them and wasting their time?
That, I suppose, is a 'procedural' question, and I probably ought to
have asked it separately.
I'm happy to drop this now, as it certainly hasn't worked for me, and
look elsewhere for answers.
Josh.
Josh,
Yes, problems generally don't come one at a time, but rather in bunches
bundled and/or layered together.
Though I haven't been able to watch your screen during the process, I
suspect that the failure to get your CDs to work was due to the way they
were created. There are (at least) two ways your ISO file could be
written to a CD: one is as a file, the other as an disk image. The
first is the wrong way and, I've found, most CD-burning software is
ambiguous about how a file (which is an ISO) is to be written, resulting
is just the problem you've been having.
You can test my theory by using some software to look first at an
install CD you know to be good and examining its files and directory
structure. Then do the same for one (or more) or your failed CDs. At
the top level the files and directories should be pretty much the same
(as these are very much standardized). If instead on your failed CD you
see somewhere your ISO file listed as a file, then the software you used
to write the ISO did it the wrong way.
To increase your chances of burning the CD properly, try using K3b. Its
menu text is more clear about what it's going to do and, IIRC, even
mentions "ISO" in the correct menu item.
Personally, I most often use a series of commands issued from a
terminal to burn a CD or DVD. I prefer this method because it's
completely unambiguous what's going on. But that's a longer story and,
as I gather from your previous posts, you prefer a GUI app. So instead
of going there, I'll just recommend K3b. I'm pretty sure it will get
you where you want to go.
hth,
ken
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