cant create bootable cd

[Karl F. Larsen]

Wade Smart wrote:
> I have three computers running ubuntu 9.04 and none of them will
> burn a cd. I have several cd-r's and 1 cdrw. All of the machines say
> they are attempting to write but after a long period of time - they all
> say finished and then eject the cd - but nothing is written on the cd's.
> 
> Wade
> 
> Registered Linux User: #480675
> Linux since June 2005
> 
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> 
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 21:49, Wade Smart<wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yea, the hardware does as does the cd.
>> I just dont have another cdrw with me at the moment.
>>
>> Wade
>>
>> Registered Linux User: #480675
>> Linux since June 2005
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 21:36, Sandy Harris<sandyinchina at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Wade Smart<wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> My cd with 9.04 seems to have errors so I thought I would blank it and
>>>> then write it again. When I originally wrote this cd I was on 8.04. But
>>>> now that Im on 9.04 (laptop) I cant write the cd. I get this error:
>>>> "Please choose another cd: The size of the project is too large..."
>>>>
>>>> Its the same image I used originally, size is 699mb.
>>> My guess would be it is trying to add the new image after the old
>>> one & there isn't room for both. Not all CDs can be erased; both
>>> the drive and the media must support that or it won't work. Are
>>> you certain yours do support erasure?
>>>
>>> Anyway, just use a fresh CD. They're cheap.
>>>
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> 
	All Ubuntu cd burners are broken. Tell us which one your trying to use.
The k3b is supposed to work but I can't seem to get it working right on
Hardy.


karl


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