2012/5/27 John <[email protected]>: > On Sun, 27 May 2012 02:47:26 +0100 > Simple . wrote: > >> 2012/5/26 zezinho <[email protected]>: >> > Em 26-05-2012 02:07, Simple . escreveu: >> > >> >> i used rufus in windows to burn the .iso into the usb, now i dont know >> >> if this is specifically caused by rufus or if this is caused by other >> >> thing, and here would be better that others could test and reproduce >> >> this. >> > >> >> ... >> > >> >> So when in the USB pen disk i renamed the packages to its original >> >> filenames, the install went fine and finally made to conclude with >> >> sucess Mageia 2 install. >> > >> > >> > I don't know rufus, but as you are able to modify the names of the >> > files in the USB, this is not a simple dump of the ISO : an ISO image >> > cannot be modified. This is so a modified DVD image, that seems to >> > introduce new bugs. >> > >> > The only way I know to put Mageia's ISO in a USB key is : >> > >> > dd if=DVD.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=8M >> > >> > (the bs option is only to accelerate writing speed). >> >> I really dont get what you mean, no one modified the .iso image or its >> contents, and what i said is that the packages with long filenames >> were modified, the end of the packages names didnt appear., so instead >> appearing in the USB pen disk: >> >> telepathy-kde-common-internals-translations-0.3.0-1.mga2.noarch.rpm >> vboxadditions-kernel-3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2-4.1.12-5.mga2.x86_64.rpm >> vboxadditions-kernel-3.3.6-netbook-2.mga2-4.1.12-5.mga2.x86_64.rpm >> >> it was appearing: >> >> telepathy-kde-common-internals-translations-0.3.0-1.mga2.noar >> vboxadditions-kernel-3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2-4.1.12-5.mga2.x86 >> vboxadditions-kernel-3.3.6-netbook-2.mga2-4.1.12-5.mga2.x86 >> >> and after i renamed the packages to its original names the install went >> ok. >> > > _You_ used a Windows application to write the image to the USB key.
If instead calling _You_ you had first went to https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installation_Media *you* had easily see that Rufus is a recommended tool to burn Linux .iso's. > If _you_ had used the application correctly, you would have written the > iso image to the device. Now theres a correct way to use Rufus? > The applcation _you_ used to write the content of the iso to the devive > truncated the long filenames. I simply followed what was written in Mageia wiki regarding burning a ISO to a USB pen disk. Also i didnt had any linux OS to be able to burn it for example with dd.
