5.3-release-i386-disc2.iso will not burn

Jay O'Brien jayobrien at att.net
Tue Nov 9 22:50:48 PST 2004


Karel Miklav wrote:

> j&kcooke wrote:
> 
>>I have downloaded both of the 5.3 i386 isos and the miniinstall iso, 
>>disc1 and the miniinstall burn an image, disc 2 does not. I downloaded  
>>disc2  from two  additional  ftp sites  with the same result.
> 
> 
> There's probably nothing wrong with the image, I had the same issue with 
> Nero. Check signature with some utility (md5, gpg...) just to be sure 
> than burn with cdrecord (http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/
> glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html):
> 
> cdrecord -help
> cdrecord -scanbus
> cdrecord dev=1,1,0 5.3-release-i386-disc2.iso
> 
> Put the value returned by -scanbus in the dev parameter upthere.
> 
> I'd still like to know what is the problem with this ISO as I didn't 
> find a Windows utility to handle it sucessfuly. Beside cdrecord :)
> 
> Regards,
> Karel
> 

I've successfully burned 5.3-RELEASE ISO disks 1, 2 and miniinst using 
Sonic Record now Version 6. The computer runs XP Pro SP1. No problems. 
The CDs read fine in a Windows machine, and I've used the miniinst CD 
to install V5.3. 

Jay O'Brien


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