Burning a new CD from the -same- .ISO file may not correct the problem if the .ISO file itself is corrupt. As I suggested before, the probability that you have a corrupt download is certainly NOT zero, even if the file looks fine. It happened to me several times. When opening the .ISO file (which on a Mac is simply an act of double clicking on the .ISO file), the contents may -seem- to be OK, even if you have downloaded an .ISO file just half the normal size, because the directory on the CD is actually a separate file on a CD, its not generated from the actual content of the CD, so even if the filename exist in the directory, the actual file it points to might be missing.
If download servers are over-loaded, there may occur substantial pauses in the download causing time-outs in the browser software, which reacts often by simply aborting the download, resulting in an incomplete .ISO file. Burning a Live CD with such an .ISO file can result in the exact symptoms you are describing. Just download another .ISO file, the severs should be less busy by now, afterwards check if the file-size is as expected. On 28 aug, 17:38, sonofulster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not a silly question, but no, I'm using 32-bit. > > I've tried running the installer on the following machines: > > * A Dell Latitude D800 laptop > * An old Toshiba Tecra laptop > * A Dell Dimension desktop > > I burnt the CD on the Dell laptop. The burner is a Samsung CDRW/DVD > SN-324S. The software I used was InfraRecorder. I've used the burner > successfully for other CD images, including Ubuntu and Xubuntu > installers in the past. > > The gOS installer starts successfully, I select my language and then > choose to run the live CD. The installation process kicks off and an > animated progress bar appears. After a few minutes, the progress bar > freezes, the CD stops whirring and nothing happens until I power the > machine down. > > On Aug 28, 4:08 pm, Graham Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:35:28 -0700 (PDT) > > > sonofulster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For the record, I burned the image onto a new CD at a speed of 4x, as > > > mahjongg suggested. > > > > The result is the same: the installer hangs and the Cap Lock and > > > Scroll Lock LEDs start flashing. > > > [snipped] > > > I know this is a silly question but are you loading it into a 64bit > > machine? > > > What is the brand of your burner? > > > -- > > Graham Todd --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
