Absolute beginner help (Page 1 of 2)

how did you burn it? Does the compaq recognize other DVDs you've burned using the same brand of DVDs?

I also downloaded the ISO to the compaq (I don't know why)  there's no way to open or install it that way huh?

Is that Brasero? I would not recommend using Brasero. On the other hand, I haven't had any problem using the one that I think you're using with Ubuntu, the one found in accessories that comes with the distro.

When I did #! before Statler, which I haven't really messed with, there was a checksum. Look for some help on how to validate the checksums of the images you downloaded against the checksums provided for the "good," images.

-The iso can become corrupted or damaged, that sort of thing, which might be causing you problems.

Also, I too recommend you try a CD instead of DVD. With a couple desktop boxes I've had bunked up disk drives that wouldn't read DVD's of any kind, let alone write to them. (Also, a lot cheaper for you to use CD's for small images.)

When you burn the image to your disk, are there any odd messages that come up during or after the process on your screen? Is there a message that tells you the image has been successfully burned? Any messages at all? If so, write them down and then tell us what they say, when they showed up during the process and if this is the first time you've seen these messages with this particular disk and this particular image.

When you have finished burning the image to the disk, is there actually any data written to the disk? I have seen disks take fifteen minutes being "written," in a drive, with no error messages, have the burning program tell the user it's been a success and then find that there actually hadn't been any data written to the disk. When you put the disk into the drive and close the drive, wait a few seconds. Then open up that drive using your operating system, (for a Windows user, this would mean going to "Computer," and double clicking on that drive.) Once you are "looking," at the disk, after it has been burned, is there anything actually on the disk?

I believe it IS called Bresario.  I'm at work now so I can't check it.  I wanted to try installing the burn program FSM recommended, but my wireless went down after that last post I submitted yesterday.

as far as messages go, it asks me if I want to burn the info to the disk as a file or just information.  I don't really understand the differance, but I tried both and neither one worked. I did find an option to change the speed, I wish I would have written down the choices so I could learn about them it was something like; Max speed (default) 2.0 DVD and 4.0 DVD.  I picked the one with the lowest number assuming that would be the slowest burn. It does tell me it is a successful burn and the data transfer is 100% complete and then, much to my dismay the system froze up.  The CD/DVD creator window stayed bright and the rest of the screen went dim and the cursor would move but that was it.  I will be stopping on the way home for a new wifi expansion card and some blank CD's (suggestion on brand or quality?)

When I open 'My Computer' on XP with the burned disk in and click on the D: drive it just opens a blank screen.  I don't think there's anything on the disk, at least the laptop's not seeing anything.  The Desktop computer is new.  I haven't burned anything else with it before.

I've read on multiple sites that Windows can't burn ISO's.  I tried anyway, I don't think the laptop has a burner (if it does there's something wrong with it)

And finally I don't know what checksum is/are.  So I will be searching and reading about that today.

Windows can't by itself, is all. You need to download other programs to do it. Anonymous recommended a good one.

no, the minimal install is different from the standard. You need to specifically download the mini iso.

  OK!  I installed Xfburn and stold a blank CD from work (I think IBM can afford it)  and have now burned a CD and my laptop responded to it.  Now what?  There's a bunch of files in it.

Three directories 'casper'  'isolinux'  and 'preseed'  plus a text file and a README.   But um... no install directions or options. no more info on the "get #!" link either. 

I'm sure my greenness is frustrating to those of you who are more experienced.  But  I do appreciate all the help I've been getting.

I thought I had it.

The disk won't boot the system.  Can anone give me some advice on what to do now?
the screen says "This is Crunchbang...bla bla...some options then ...............Loading isolinux: Disk error D1, AX = 4200, drive 9F  Boot failed: press a key to retry."
Same message on retry.
Did I make a mistake on the disk burn?  The only option I had besides speed was "write mode"  I chose the default TAO over SAO.

Last edited by skriblinmatt (2010-09-01 16:20:43)

I just burned it to a DVD (which gave me an additional burnspeed option of 2).  The Laptop, which I am trying to install crunchbang onto does not read DVDs.  But I am currently running the live version on my desktop computer.  So, I know I have a good file.  However I can not burn it to a CD for some reason.  If I could, I'm sure I could boot the Laptop from that disk.  What's going wrong? Any thoughts?

well, I burned the file I want to a DVD without fail.  But I can't use a DVD.  It's XFburn that I'm getting the fail notification on, Braseo actually says it is burning (while simultaneously displaying a notification that it is "preparing to write" for HOURS).  The "failed" CD's show a boot screen with a "failed to boot" notification at the bottom when I start up the laptop with them in it.