[Quantian-general] Quantian 0.7.9.1 DVD ISO

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 30 January 2006 at 15:11, Christopher Heiny wrote:
| On Monday 30 January 2006 14:41, Jose Luis Gomez Dans wrote:
| > Hi!
| > I downloaded the 2.4Gb ISO image with the latest Quantian. After getting
| > hold of it, I burnt it using k3b (DVD ISO). It was detected fine, and so I
| > went with it. The DVD burning process finished with no errors, and I was
| > left with my brand new Quantian DVD. However, the DVD does not boot in
| > either the computer where it was burnt, or in other computer. The disk
| > whizzes and the light in the drive flashes, but it does not boot up. It is
| > also impossible to read the contents of the DVD from either Windows or
| > Linux.

You may have burned a coaster. I have done so too with k3b. There is
difference between creating a data dvd and a bootable one.

If someone know a really good tutorial I'd be happy to link too.

| >
| > Have I forgotten something really important? Do I blame it on the hardware
| > (I burn other DVDs and CDs on that computer that work), or my bad karma :)
| >
| > Many thanks!
| 
| Bug in the boot process somewhere.  Try
| 	knoppix lang=en
| at the boot prompt.  At least, that's what worked for me.

Good point, but that requires the boot process to start so that you get that
prompt (at which point you have to make up for missing default, sorry)
whereas Jose Luis didn't even get the beginning of the boot process. I
suspect he wrote a data dvd.

Dirk

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