Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:22:14 -0800 (PST), Nicholas wrote: I haven't check the md5sum of the downloaded image nor the burned image. How can I check this md5sum from windows? I'm using Burn From Image from NERO to burn this image to dvd. Am I doing the correct thing? If you have a computer with two drives, I think the easiest way to do this is sneak a copy of Knoppix to work. After the DVD download, use Knoppix to md5sum it, and k3b to burn and verify the burn. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?
Nicholas Iskandar wrote: Dear All, I just finished download mandriva-free-2007-DVD.iso ( 4.5 Gb ) from mandriva official website. I burn it using Nero... but it seems that the dvd is not bootable. When I open the dvd, there are only 2 folders and 2 file text : i586 and x86_64, release notes.txt. How can I install Mandriva 2007 using this DVD since it's not bootable. Could you please help me.. Thanks a lot, nicholas welcome Nicholas; we could use a little more information,,, it is most likely the 'usual culprits'; 1st, how sure are you that it was a good download and good burn? did you check md5sum of downloaded image? did you check md5sum of burned image? did you burn an image file to disk, or did you burn the files to disk from an image file? (do you understand the difference?) -- reg. Linux User 167806 webhome http://ed-tharp.is-a-geek.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?
Thanks for the reply. I haven't check the md5sum of the downloaded image nor the burned image. How can I check this md5sum from windows? I'm using Burn From Image from NERO to burn this image to dvd. Am I doing the correct thing? thanks, nicholas - Original Message From: ET [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:12:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ? Nicholas Iskandar wrote: Dear All, I just finished download mandriva-free-2007-DVD.iso ( 4.5 Gb ) from mandriva official website. I burn it using Nero... but it seems that the dvd is not bootable. When I open the dvd, there are only 2 folders and 2 file text : i586 and x86_64, release notes.txt. How can I install Mandriva 2007 using this DVD since it's not bootable. Could you please help me.. Thanks a lot, nicholas welcome Nicholas; we could use a little more information,,, it is most likely the 'usual culprits'; 1st, how sure are you that it was a good download and good burn? did you check md5sum of downloaded image? did you check md5sum of burned image? did you burn an image file to disk, or did you burn the files to disk from an image file? (do you understand the difference?) -- reg. Linux User 167806 webhome http://ed-tharp.is-a-geek.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on www.Answers.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 03:22 -0800, Nicholas Iskandar wrote: Thanks for the reply. I haven't check the md5sum of the downloaded image nor the burned image. How can I check this md5sum from windows? I'm using Burn From Image from NERO to burn this image to dvd. Am I doing the correct thing? thanks, nicholas - Original Message From: ET [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:12:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ? Nicholas Iskandar wrote: Dear All, I just finished download mandriva-free-2007-DVD.iso ( 4.5 Gb ) from mandriva official website. I burn it using Nero... but it seems that the dvd is not bootable. When I open the dvd, there are only 2 folders and 2 file text : i586 and x86_64, release notes.txt. How can I install Mandriva 2007 using this DVD since it's not bootable. Could you please help me.. Thanks a lot, nicholas welcome Nicholas; we could use a little more information,,, it is most likely the 'usual culprits'; 1st, how sure are you that it was a good download and good burn? did you check md5sum of downloaded image? did you check md5sum of burned image? did you burn an image file to disk, or did you burn the files to disk from an image file? (do you understand the difference?) I use a little program called cdcheck to check my burned disks after I have burned them when in windoz. I think its freeware and you should be able to find it at tucows.com. -- Registered Linux user number 414240 Guy Fawkes the only person to enter the Parliament with honest intentions and he was going to blow them up Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?
normally we try and get you to ask 1 question per post, and reply should be at the bottom; (my bad for answering in line) Nicholas Iskandar wrote: Thanks for the reply. I haven't check the md5sum of the downloaded image nor the burned image. How can I check this md5sum from windows? I am a little short of time and I hope someone else will pipe in and give you the whole story, but basically (with out the quotes) you type md5sum nameoffile.iso (changing nameoffile to whatever the ISO is named) it should return an md5sum (a bunch of digits), and that should be the exact same digit string as the md5sum in the folder that you downloaded the image from. if it's not exactly the same string, then the download was not good, and may have to be repaired or re-downloaded. I'm using Burn From Image from NERO to burn this image to dvd. Am I doing the correct thing? that was correct thanks, nicholas - Original Message From: ET [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:12:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ? Nicholas Iskandar wrote: Dear All, I just finished download mandriva-free-2007-DVD.iso ( 4.5 Gb ) from mandriva official website. I burn it using Nero... but it seems that the dvd is not bootable. When I open the dvd, there are only 2 folders and 2 file text : i586 and x86_64, release notes.txt. How can I install Mandriva 2007 using this DVD since it's not bootable. Could you please help me.. Thanks a lot, nicholas welcome Nicholas; we could use a little more information,,, it is most likely the 'usual culprits'; 1st, how sure are you that it was a good download and good burn? did you check md5sum of downloaded image? did you check md5sum of burned image? did you burn an image file to disk, or did you burn the files to disk from an image file? (do you understand the difference?) -- reg. Linux User 167806 webhome http://ed-tharp.is-a-geek.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?
John Bowden wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 03:22 -0800, Nicholas Iskandar wrote: Thanks for the reply. I haven't check the md5sum of the downloaded image nor the burned image. How can I check this md5sum from windows? I'm using Burn From Image from NERO to burn this image to dvd. Am I doing the correct thing? thanks, nicholas - Original Message From: ET [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:12:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ? Nicholas Iskandar wrote: Dear All, I just finished download mandriva-free-2007-DVD.iso ( 4.5 Gb ) from mandriva official website. I burn it using Nero... but it seems that the dvd is not bootable. When I open the dvd, there are only 2 folders and 2 file text : i586 and x86_64, release notes.txt. How can I install Mandriva 2007 using this DVD since it's not bootable. Could you please help me.. Thanks a lot, nicholas welcome Nicholas; we could use a little more information,,, it is most likely the 'usual culprits'; 1st, how sure are you that it was a good download and good burn? did you check md5sum of downloaded image? did you check md5sum of burned image? did you burn an image file to disk, or did you burn the files to disk from an image file? (do you understand the difference?) I use a little program called cdcheck to check my burned disks after I have burned them when in windoz. I think its freeware and you should be able to find it at tucows.com. mybad I forgot he was using doze in my last reply, you will need a doze version of MD5sum. -- reg. Linux User 167806 webhome http://ed-tharp.is-a-geek.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?
On 24/01/07, ET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Bowden wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 03:22 -0800, Nicholas Iskandar wrote: Thanks for the reply. I haven't check the md5sum of the downloaded image nor the burned image. How can I check this md5sum from windows? I'm using Burn From Image from NERO to burn this image to dvd. Am I doing the correct thing? You probably didn't burn it as an iso, I've made that mistake plenty of times. For windows d'load a small tool called isorecord. It's brilliant - just right click the iso you downloaded and one the options is burn iso no mucking about with that nero nonsense. Stuart Registered Linux Mangler #001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 04:22, Nicholas Iskandar wrote: Thanks for the reply. I haven't check the md5sum of the downloaded image nor the burned image. How can I check this md5sum from windows? I'm using Burn From Image from NERO to burn this image to dvd. Am I doing the correct thing? thanks, nicholas Overkill for just a checksum, but coming from a Unix background, I couldn't survive day to day work on Windoze (which I'm forced to use for work), without Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/), which does include md5sum and sha1sum (at least if you have the right packages installed; I don't remember if these are part of the core - Cygwin has a package install program vaguely similar to rpmdrake and synaptic). Shocky -- These are my opinions. Get your own. Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:51:54 -0700, Shocky wrote: Overkill for just a checksum, but coming from a Unix background, I couldn't survive day to day work on Windoze (which I'm forced to use for work), without Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/)... Ditto. I did some web stuff and technical editing last year at a place that was Windoze only. (And were getting rid of Linux because of the SCO thang--those fools.) Anyway, there were a few things that were a total pain in the butt without Cygwin. And I would have died without ActiveState's Perl for Win32. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:57:20 -0500 Miark wrote: would have died without ActiveState's Perl for Win32. Don't forget ssh . THE program I could honestly not live without. IMO the best program OSS has spawned, ever! -- Good luck, HarM. Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?
- Original Message From: Nicholas Iskandar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 1:48:04 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ? Dear All, I just finished download mandriva-free-2007-DVD.iso ( 4.5 Gb ) from mandriva official website. I burn it using Nero... but it seems that the dvd is not bootable. When I open the dvd, there are only 2 folders and 2 file text : i586 and x86_64, release notes.txt. How can I install Mandriva 2007 using this DVD since it's not bootable. Could you please help me.. Thanks a lot, nicholas cjs reply it would be a good idea to elaborate a bit more on this problem. The possible problems are: bad md5sums (both on the cd and the iso) a bad burn (where nero didn't burn the dvd correctly) if your md5sums check out on your iso file and not your dvd, then more then likely you had a bad burn. the best way to fix this is to erase the disk (if you are using a dvd-rw) and re-burn the image. end of reply Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?
- Original Message From: Nicholas Iskandar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 3:22:14 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ? Thanks for the reply. I haven't check the md5sum of the downloaded image nor the burned image. How can I check this md5sum from windows? I'm using Burn From Image from NERO to burn this image to dvd. Am I doing the correct thing? ^^ Yes you are doing the correct thing ^^ thanks, nicholas - Original Message From: ET [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:12:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ? Nicholas Iskandar wrote: Dear All, I just finished download mandriva-free-2007-DVD.iso ( 4.5 Gb ) from mandriva official website. I burn it using Nero... but it seems that the dvd is not bootable. When I open the dvd, there are only 2 folders and 2 file text : i586 and x86_64, release notes.txt. How can I install Mandriva 2007 using this DVD since it's not bootable. Could you please help me.. Thanks a lot, nicholas welcome Nicholas; we could use a little more information,,, it is most likely the 'usual culprits'; 1st, how sure are you that it was a good download and good burn? did you check md5sum of downloaded image? did you check md5sum of burned image? did you burn an image file to disk, or did you burn the files to disk from an image file? (do you understand the difference?) -- reg. Linux User 167806 webhome http://ed-tharp.is-a-geek.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on www.Answers.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com
