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 .
>
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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
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*Ankush*

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