On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:54 AM, Sharad Birmiwal <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:19 PM, pcviruz <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 2-3 days ago I decided to switch to Debian as there were some driver > > related problems in Ubuntu10.10 such as Wireless Drivers and > > others..But when i was burning the ISO image to my DVD(Re-Writable)..i > > got some errors such as: > > Should files be renamed to be fully Windows-compatible? > > I didnt understand what does it mean so i clicked on Yes..Then after a > > few seconds i got another error as: > > Do you really want to add "binary-i386" to the selection? > > I clicked on Yes..and after 5 mins when the ISO burning was complete > > then i got an error as: > > The DVD may contain some error logs... > > > > So finally the DVD was completed but when i tried to format my system > > using that DVD i saw that my PC was not reading that DVD..I tried it > > for 2-3 times but all in vain.I blanked the disc and again wrote it > > and faced the same problems as above.. > > > > So can anyone help me in this??? > > My tip would not give you insight into the problem but here is the > safe (and tested) way to burn a bootable iso. Go to the directory with > the iso image and run the following command. > > # cdrecord -v -v dev=/dev/cdrw <filename.iso> > > You might have to add a "sudo" in front (i.e., $ sudo cdrecord ...) > > Hope this helps, > Sharad > > PS: to be more clear in the future, what you faced were not errors in > the beginning but options. An error typically doesn't let you proceed > beyond the point (something goes wrong). Nothing went wrong here. You > should have tried choosing not to rename files for windows the second > time. The old FAT filesystem did not allow filenames to be longer than > 8+3 characters. That means, IF the linux on the cd looks for a file > like vmlinux-2.6.31 , it wouldn't be able to find it since it would > be renamed to __may be__ something like vmlinu~1.31 . > > -- > LUG@IITD - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > from the sequence of events I guess you did not burn the DVD as an iso image..please google for tutorial on iso burning on a dvd -- Happy Landings *Ankush* -- LUG@IITD - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
