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| Thread ID: 51047 | 2004-11-10 06:13:00 | Linux, what can you do with it? | Prescott (11) | Press F1 |
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| 290047 | 2004-11-16 01:09:00 | New combo drive now installed and working. Yet to test DVD capabilities but it does the job just fine on CDR's of the bootable Linux variety. The Auckland Pony Express nag found wandering Orewa Domain in a dazed and confused state (so they have another?), has now apparently been told where Wellington City is ;) Delivery of it's precious cargo is now eminent. Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 290048 | 2004-11-16 04:18:00 | Yoper uses Lilo as a boot manager and one of its features is that it makes a copy of the original MBR. If you wish to restore your MBR to the original state, you just need to run a special command to uninstall Lilo and this will restore the MBR, so it shouldn't be necessary to fdisk /mbr it ... hopefully :) | Jen C (20) | ||
| 290049 | 2004-11-17 07:31:00 | Ok Prescott, I've got the discs from Jen, just burnt all four and then tested if the first one booted like a stupid twerp . I'm going to have to pick up some more CD's tomorrow, thank you for your patience . Jen (or anyone with an interest) what software did you use for burning with your NEC ND 3500? I burnt Yoper the other day with Nero no problems . Then I tried NTI Gold CD/DVD Maker which came with the drive . Created ISO images to disk (HDD) from the Fedora CD's then used the create ISO disk to burn them . I didn't use Disc At Once, like I do for Nero, because this NTI software told me it was best for it to decide what method and parameters to use when burning (yeah, I RTFM :o last time tho), I checked the CD's and they appeared to be an exact copy with all the bits in the right place, so decided to forge ahead with burning all four in a row rather than do a test boot (yours boot ok BTW) . Is my assumption right, I should have selected Disk At Once? Oh! stop messing around in windows, KB3 then . Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 290050 | 2004-11-17 07:42:00 | Yes, and Yes.... DAO is fine, and using K3b is dead easy! I love it! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 290051 | 2004-11-17 07:46:00 | >Jen (or anyone with an interest) what software did you use for burning with your NEC ND 3500? I used K3b of course! :-D Easy as! |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 290052 | 2004-11-17 08:04:00 | Grumble grumble, I hate it when you dig yourself a hole and while your digging away you have this little feeling of distrust in your spade or the stability of the sides but do nothing about it. Well the spade broke and the sides collapsed and now I'm up to my neck. To add insult to injury, I just tweaked my own nose with a little help from my friends, because I asked for it :^O gotto laugh tho. I'll grab some more discs tomorrow :8} Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 290053 | 2004-11-18 09:24:00 | Phew, this is turning into a bit of a saga . Couldn't get Kb3 to work so I'll leave that aside for the mo . NTI CD Maker Gold burnt the already created iso ok using DOA but it would not boot . Tried Nero, at 49% of creating the iso to HDD it stalled out, just stopped, tried a 2nd time, same, stopped at 49% but this time I noticed it writing at 100kb/sec, 10 minutes of this didn't advance anything . Next of the rank was IsoBuster, ran in to read errors at 48%, confirmed a retry, no good, confirmed a write with user data, kept on hitting the same every 10 to 15 seconds . aborted the process . Something on the CD is not liked by any of these programmes, but it boots ok to the start of the installation procedure at least . Seeing as I've had Yoper on disc for a few days, I'm going to shoot that off by fast post to you Prescott . I'll have a crack at installing Fedora, if it works I'll post it . Can't find an MD5 file on the CD, if I extract one it's not going to do much good is it . Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 290054 | 2004-11-18 09:35:00 | Crikey Murray, you are having fun! Any reason why you converted the CD's to an ISO and then wrote it back again as a image? Why not just directly copy from disc to disc? You can find the md5sums on any server that holds the FC3 ISO's, but here they are anyway: ca49964739f84848ca78fc03662272fb FC3-i386-DVD . iso db8c7254beeb4f6b891d1ed3f689b412 FC3-i386-disc1 . iso 2c11674cf429fe570445afd9d5ff564e FC3-i386-disc2 . iso f88f6ab5947ca41f3cf31db04487279b FC3-i386-disc3 . iso 6331c00aa3e8c088cc365eeb7ef230ea FC3-i386-disc4 . iso I checked out all the md5sum's on my FC3 CD and DVD ISO's and they were fine post downloading, and they were checked out again by K3b just before burning to disc . Hope I haven't sent you dud disc's :_| |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 290055 | 2004-11-18 10:04:00 | > Crikey Murray, you are having fun! Yeah, I am ;) > Any reason why you converted the CD's to an ISO and > then wrote it back again as a image? Why not just > directly copy from disc to disc? Converted when using NTI because the copy function would not work because the friggin ferkin disc is copyrighted (firkin DRM, M$, RIIA, MIA, Sony, EMI, Time Warner, Hutch [a special ferkin for him] septic's, et al), ahhhhh! that's better :) Any way it has an ISO creation and ISO writing function which it did allow . I figured it would be just like burning a downloaded ISO, sadly though I don't think this programme is a literal interpreter . With that in the bin, I went back to Nero (with which I copied the Yoper CD) and got the stall during the first stage of the disc copy (writing/caching from CD to HDD) . Incidentally, or not?, Nero flagged the CD as copyrighted as well but continued until the 49% . > Hope I haven't sent you dud disc's :_| Please don't cry Jen, you'll make me feel bad . I suspect that when I do a test install, all will go just fine . This is probably more to do with proprietary formats and DRM than bad source . I'll be sending a polite email to NTI, once I have checked my facts, and stick another pin or three into the Hatch doll ]:) Thanks for the MD5's BTW . Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 290056 | 2004-11-18 11:20:00 | Actually, it should just warn you the disc is Copyrighted, but nothing more. Fire up Linux and type: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/username/Fedora_disc1.iso There you go you've just made a perfect ISO image! Now fire up K3b, burn it with default settings and you're done :-) |
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