Yep, I was using the slowest speeds available. I've now installed unetbootin and am creating a USB to boot this from. With any luck... :-)
I'll let you know how I make out. Thanks for the assist! On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Andrew Woodhead <[email protected]> wrote: > Burn as SLOWLY as you are allowed. Even 1x if you can. It will give a better > image on the CD and will reduce errors by jitter and such. Using a USB > device alleviates the need for moving CDs and such (assuming you can boot > USB). If not definately burn slow, try another brand if you still get issues > and try not to use CDRWs. > -Andy > > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Bob Trevithick <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> @Phill: Thanks.. the 95% bug I should have looked up! If I can ever >> burn a CD (see below) I'll try the install with ethernet unplugged. :) >> >> @Andy: Okay, this is weird. I did check the md5sum of the ISO I >> downloaded, but I did *not* check the CD I burned.. and I should have. >> >> I've now made three coasters, four counting the original one, and no >> matter what system I use to burn the CD, the file boot.cat comes out >> with the wrong md5. It's the only error on the CD. Neither Brasero >> nor Xfburn can put this image on a CD without screwing up that one >> file. And neither one warns me of the error. I wonder why it's >> always the same file? >> >> Anyway, my apologies.. I should have checked the CD as well as the >> ISO, obviously! There's something I won't forget to do ever again. :) >> Now if I can just get it to burn accurately, just once, I can start >> over and hopefully things will work better. >> >> Regards, >> Bob >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
