[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu distribution around Lepalale

[Ricardo Botha]

Good Morning Marius,

I always use the verify data option when burning cd's / dvd's and I used an application called PowerISO to do that with (on Windows).

I find that this is a random problem that appears to be happening randomly to various people (google seems to find plenty hits to the problem but no solution). As I explained the cd worked like a charm on my laptop.

I'm well aware of torrent technology and use that when ever I can to download large downloads, but as I explained that internet is very hard to get in Lephalale and downloading via an EDGE connection is unbearably slow.

I have now recently tried installing 11.04 via cd / usb on another laptop. But again it gives me random errors at random stages during the installation. I have even gone as far as to mount the ISO to a virtual drive directly and no luck yet. Seems to me like the Live CD doesn't always want to play ball.

The only possible solution/suggestion I could find was where someone recommended that the RAM is faulty/not enough, I can assure you this is not the case and the problem lies elsewhere. 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Marius Kruger <amanic at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 00:17:07 
To: Ubuntu South African Local Community<ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
Cc: <irmandos at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Ubuntu distribution around Lepalale

On 19 May 2011 11:50, frans <dormakorp at vodamail.co.za> wrote:

> And that is what i experience too, though it does help if your dekstop pc
> install and your laptop have a sata drive at least, also make sure to burn
> your install cd's as slow as possible, even an hour spend here can safe you
> a lot of headache in the future. though 4xspeed usually are slow enough. for
> most.
>

What I do is just check the md5sums after downloading, and then when burning
with k3b I tick the "verify written data" box to be sure. Is it possible
that this can miss errors that burning at 4xspeed won't?

On getting the cd maybe I can try to mail it to you, not sure if that will
work or what it will cost..
Recently I fell in love with bittorrent which is great for downloading big
stuff reliably over shaky connections because it downloads little pieces at
a time and checks the hash of each part. But it sort of requires that you
upload stuff too. On ktorrent you can limit the upload speed to 5KiB/s so
that it doesn't suck out all your bandwidth. Though if you download the
alternative cd now, there is probably way more seeders than leachers by now.
maybe worth a try..
http://releases.ubuntu.com/11.04/ubuntu-11.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent

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<>< Marius ><>

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