My PC I think has a faulty DVD drive/corrupted installation as it doesn't seem to burn. My spare machine with a CDROM doesn't seem to work now and for some odd reason neither boot on the USB (even with PLoP).
Not been a good day! If someone is prepared to help me out maybe you can reply off list - I live North of Bury. The distro is Fedora xfce and Salix (CDs as opposed to DVD).
thanks james
On 23/05/2014, James Freer jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com wrote:
My PC I think has a faulty DVD drive/corrupted installation as it doesn't seem to burn. My spare machine with a CDROM doesn't seem to work now and for some odd reason neither boot on the USB (even with PLoP).
Not been a good day! If someone is prepared to help me out maybe you can reply off list - I live North of Bury. The distro is Fedora xfce and Salix (CDs as opposed to DVD).
thanks james
Mick and Chris
Thanks for your offers. I think I've found the problem now... late last night!
I use Xubuntu and they seem to alternate between Xfburn and Brasero for burning. I usually use K3B (but do get fed up with all the kde dependencies) and for some reason I didn't - somehow I also didn't check the md5sum or sha256sum carefully enough. Also I think I burnt at a higher speed than the recommended 4X. Now that one has to use a DVD and this PC it seems only does burning at min 8X... seems a bit fast perhaps. I did buy some DVD-RW which are 4X only and that seems ok. So I've learnt that I need to buy the 4X DVD-RW in future - well i don't as they can be used again and again. USB or USB & PLoP doesn't seem to work on either PC - which is probably what most folk use.
So the problem I had was my older spare machine only burns CD, the newer one I thought had a corrupted Xubuntu 13.10 on it. I burnt that on earlier release Xubuntu 12.04. I risked the presumed corrupted 13.10, Brasero managed to burn 14.04 and md5sum &sha256sum ok (do both now to make absolutely sure!).
thanks - I'll try and make the pub meets sometime. james
On 24/05/2014, James Freer jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/05/2014, James Freer jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com wrote:
My PC I think has a faulty DVD drive/corrupted installation as it doesn't seem to burn. My spare machine with a CDROM doesn't seem to work now and for some odd reason neither boot on the USB (even with PLoP).
Not been a good day! If someone is prepared to help me out maybe you can reply off list - I live North of Bury. The distro is Fedora xfce and Salix (CDs as opposed to DVD).
thanks james
Mick and Chris
Thanks for your offers. I think I've found the problem now... late last night!
I use Xubuntu and they seem to alternate between Xfburn and Brasero for burning. I usually use K3B (but do get fed up with all the kde dependencies) and for some reason I didn't - somehow I also didn't check the md5sum or sha256sum carefully enough. Also I think I burnt at a higher speed than the recommended 4X. Now that one has to use a DVD and this PC it seems only does burning at min 8X... seems a bit fast perhaps. I did buy some DVD-RW which are 4X only and that seems ok. So I've learnt that I need to buy the 4X DVD-RW in future - well i don't as they can be used again and again. USB or USB & PLoP doesn't seem to work on either PC - which is probably what most folk use.
So the problem I had was my older spare machine only burns CD, the newer one I thought had a corrupted Xubuntu 13.10 on it. I burnt that on earlier release Xubuntu 12.04. I risked the presumed corrupted 13.10, Brasero managed to burn 14.04 and md5sum &sha256sum ok (do both now to make absolutely sure!).
thanks - I'll try and make the pub meets sometime. james
Continued Probably wondering why I asked for a Salix and Fedora - I was thinking of a change from Xubuntu... as i was also blaming xubuntu for the trouble and thought I should have a change. But xubuntu is by far the best for an xfce distro... I like it as it's free from all the "Bells & Whistles" that gnome, mate and kde have.
Thought I was going dotty the last couple of days... but recovered now! james
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James Freer