How safe is it to buy Linux distributions on ebay

[Rajiv Vyas]

On 9/4/05, Kent Nyberg <nyberg.kent at spray.se> wrote:
> It should not be impossible to burn CDs in Ubuntu.
> If you encounter problems like that, it is due to some problem which can
> be fixed, or hardware-error - which then is not related to ubuntu.
> 
> Btw, buying Ubuntu, or anything else, on Ebay always have the risk of
> buying CDs which has been fixed to give away private stuff etc. But cant
> you get a friend to download it for you so that you/he/she can make a
> copy? Its free to do that, and more secure. As for ubuntu,  you can
> order CDs for free from shipit.ubuntu.com (That is, they are official
> CDs from Ubuntu with a nice graphics etc. A Must-have!).
> 
> 
> But as for the main problem with burning CDs. What is the problem? Could
> you give detailed information about whats going wrong? Which program
> etc?
> It should work out of the box if you do it correctly.
> One thing that might give away information is to look at the command
> dmesg from the terminal when a burning has failed. That might leak some
> information about hardware-errors like I/O error etc.
> 
 

When I tried it for the first time couple of weeks ago (k3b as well as
Nautilus), the burning would stop about half way, says something like
cdrecorder error, Code 254. I fixed that by starting DMA, which
apparently is not switched on automatically. Now, when I try and burn
an ISO image (breezy) the CD burning goes all the way, but for some
reason I am unable to load breazy on the laptop. Didn't have this
problem when I was running Sarge. It would burn out of box.

Rajiv