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Name: easa
Date: May 29, 2008 at 03:49:23 Pacific
OS: Win2000/Xubuntu
CPU/Ram: 800mHz/256 MB
Product: Microlink
Comment:

The problem is, that when I download the ISO and burn it to a CD disc it wount boot up from the CD. Startup is configured to boot from CD. CD gives the install screen what starts to loop. I think it is a server problem.



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Name: ernie
Date: May 29, 2008 at 09:25:19 Pacific
Reply:

Did you check the md5sum for the iso image
before burning to disk?

Since you get the install screen, I believe
you properly burned the disk from an iso
image (not as a data disk).

I often hear of issues resulting from
burning a CD at the rated speed. It is best
to burn a disk at a slower speed to reduce
the possibility of a corrupted burn.

Unless I misunderstand their methodology you
have an installation disk. The basic
distribution should be installed from the
CD, so there should be no reason to suspect
a "server problem". If the size of the iso
image from which you burned the disk is
about 700 MB (a full disk), this is the
case. If the image size is less than 100 MB,
you may have an ftp based installer
(unlikely).

I suggest you first check the md5sum for the
iso image file. Google "md5sum" to find a
suitable Windows (or DOS) based utility. The
executable should be named something
like "md5sum.exe" or
perhaps "winmd5sum.exe". You can get the
md5sum information file from the location
where you downloaded the iso image file.

If the resulting value from running the
md5sum utility against the iso image file
matches the information you went back to
get, then try burning the image to another
disk at a slower speed (about half the rated
speed of either the disk or your burner -
whichever is slowest).

HTH,

Ernie Registered Linux User 247790


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Response Number 2
Name: jefro
Date: May 29, 2008 at 11:30:59 Pacific
Reply:

check md5 as above.

Some hardware might need a boot time switch. Might search for exactly that on ubuntu sites. Some cd drives are odd.

Some older CD drives are very picky with burned cd's. Some may work a bit on track 1. The brand of cd sometimes is the issue. Relates to mark space value.

There are older computers that can't boot to syslinux, they need isolinux. (or the otherway around)

Try the cd on another machine just to see or use qemu or other virtual machine to test. I always boot a downloaded image to a VM.


Try a puppy or dsl cd in the older bios choice.

"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10


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