jdd wrote:
Basil Chupin a écrit :
Why don't you ask how many of the people in this forum are using
"virtual bos" (whatever that it is) and "vmware"?
sorry for the typos, I meant "virtual box". It's very pften used to
tests distros and prove often to be more difficult to boot than real
hardware :-(
OK, so it is "virtual box" :-) .
Nevertheless, the point which is being missed here is that the basic
reason why a LIVE cd is made available is for people who would be
99.9999% of the time those who never used a Linux distribution; the LIVE
cd is meant to give them an insight into what Linux/openSUSE/whatever is
all about.
As it happens, a friend of mine is VERY interested in Linux (he and his
wife are running XP at the moment); I told him about SuSE and therefore
downloaded the LIVE cd to run on his system to show him what "it" is all
about. I had to tell him that I "am having troubles with my system and
will come over and show him what OpenSUSE looks like 'later'."
When each write (using kb3) is 'told' to verify the write and no
errors are reported then it is logical to assume that the source file
is stuffed, no?
the problem so may come from a defective write
alas no. may be the hole cd bunch is defective. I've seen this. good
burn and two minutes later empty cd...
I don't say this is the case, but it "may" be.
I have in hand 30 official 10.2 openSUSE printed DVD's sent for
distribution. 3 amoug 4 are deffective and not even boot. I noticed
this because the return from the users and could verify it myself last
saturday.
optical medium are usually good, but sometime not.
I also have at least two dvd readers that don't read dvd's (but read
perfectly cd's), and dead cd readers by dozens...
may be something like
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/null
could give you a hint of if or not the cd is good
jdd
I know about bad cd/dvd writes, but having 3 computers, with different
readers, and not being able to boot the cd in question - especially when
I downloaded another copy using another computer and burning it with the
burner on it - doesn't encourage me to accept that something "at my end"
is at fault.
The point here is, of course, is there must be many, many others who are
in the same situation - but have not had the desire nor the knowledge of
available forums to express their disappointment in not being able to
boot the LIVE cd.
But then, who really cares? :-)
Ciao
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