ISO boot of latest 8.04
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Aug 7 17:50:58 UTC 2008
Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> In this case, I can practically guarantee that it _is_ your media. My
>> last install from my own media left me with three bad CDs before I
>> finally gave
>> up and wrote the image to a _DVD_. The iso size pushes the limits of
>> what's possible with a CD, and cheap media can't handle it. It's cheaper
>> for me to use 10% of a DVD to hold the image than to burn 10 CDs in the
>> hope that _one_ of them will work.
>
> FYI -I have tried burning the CD image to a DVD, and can read the files,
> but couldn't boot from it on the various machines I've got....
Can you boot from any other DVD? Not all systems can boot off a DVD, but
burned with k3b exactly as I burn an ISO to a CD, the ubuntu images always
boot.
--
derek
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