2012/5/27 Simple . <[email protected]>: > 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.
But i forgot to say that for Mageia 2 official release there is a problem with the .iso, using dd to save it to a USB pen disk doesnt set it as a bootable device, and this is a new bug to be reported.
