Post by Oscar A. MorenoI've been trying to burn the Ubuntu ISO image I downloaded on to a CD. I've
used Disk Utility 10.4.4 and DiscBlaze 4.4.4. The CD I get is useless with
both. I cannot boot Ubuntu. Can anyone guess what I'm doing wrong with the
CD burning?
OS: MacOS 10.3.9
System: Dual 1.8 GHz G5 with 1.5 GB RAM
Burner: Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-106D
In addition to the corrupt image possibility mentioned by another poster
(more probable, in fact), there's the possibility that you burned the
image file as a single file on a new ISO-9660 filesystem on the disc. This
is the wrong way to do it; you should instead locate an option in your
CD-R software for burning an image file as such. It's probably called
"burn image file," "create CD-R from ISO image," or something similar.
Some programs will handle it right if you launch them by doing a
drag-and-drop of the .iso file to the program icon.
To check whether this is the case, insert the CD-R you've burned and look
at its contents. If the problem is what I'm suggesting, you'll see the
.iso file you downloaded sitting alone on the CD-R. If you burned it
correctly, you'll see a bunch of files and directories. (I don't know
exactly what comes with the standard Ubuntu disc, so I can't be more
precise than this.)
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