Good Morning:
I have downloaded the Rel 10 Fedora iso from the website (general link) so the files is F10-i686-live.iso to my windows desktop.
I have tried to create a dvd on two different machines that I write DVD's to all of the time. So this is not my first attempt at creating a DVD.
In this case, I am telling Roxio to burn an image.
Roxio tells me everything is complete and ejects the DVD. When I take the DVD and try to explore, there isn't any information on the DVD.
Why?
Thanks.
Craig
On 5/24/2009 10:18 AM, craig morroni wrote:
Good Morning:
I have downloaded the Rel 10 Fedora iso from the website (general link) so the files is F10-i686-live.iso to my windows desktop.
I have tried to create a dvd on two different machines that I write DVD's to all of the time. So this is not my first attempt at creating a DVD. In this case, I am telling Roxio to burn an image.
Roxio tells me everything is complete and ejects the DVD. When I take the DVD and try to explore, there isn't any information on the DVD.
Why?
Thanks.
Craig
I have never tried to burn a CD ISO to a DVD. But I would think that might not work.
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 08:18:42 -0600, craig morroni cj-morroni@qwest.net wrote:
Good Morning:
I have downloaded the Rel 10 Fedora iso from the website (general link) so the files is F10-i686-live.iso to my windows desktop.
I have tried to create a dvd on two different machines that I write DVD's to all of the time. So this is not my first attempt at creating a DVD.
In this case, I am telling Roxio to burn an image.
Roxio tells me everything is complete and ejects the DVD. When I take the DVD and try to explore, there isn't any information on the DVD.
Why?
Are you burning it as an iso image or a normal file?
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:46:06 -0400, David dgboles@comcast.net wrote:
I have never tried to burn a CD ISO to a DVD. But I would think that might not work.
The file system format is the same. So you can use them on either as long as they fit on the media.
I tried both.
Once the DVD is burned, the drive ejects.
When I re-insert the DVD, My Computer locks up and I cannot browse the DVD.
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:46:06 -0400, David dgboles@comcast.net wrote:
I have never tried to burn a CD ISO to a DVD. But I would think that might not work.
The file system format is the same. So you can use them on either as long as they fit on the media.
On Sun, 24 May 2009 09:37:56 -0600 craig morroni cj-morroni@qwest.net wrote:
I tried both.
Once the DVD is burned, the drive ejects.
This is correct s far.
When I re-insert the DVD, My Computer locks up and I cannot browse the DVD.
Does this occur if you reboot and then re-insert the DVD ? Obviously its a bug either way but it would help better understand what is going on.
Alan Cox wrote:
On Sun, 24 May 2009 09:37:56 -0600 craig morroni cj-morroni@qwest.net wrote:
I tried both.
Once the DVD is burned, the drive ejects.
This is correct s far.
When I re-insert the DVD, My Computer locks up and I cannot browse the DVD.
Does this occur if you reboot and then re-insert the DVD ? Obviously its a bug either way but it would help better understand what is going on.
Maybe the ISO is corrupt. Which burning software are you using?
I have tried two different .ISO downloads to two different machines Roxio Creator Business V10 on one machine and the other is another is a more general Roxio product on the second machine.
Both machines say they create the DVD, neither one works when I try to load the DVD in the target box.
Alex Makhlin wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:
On Sun, 24 May 2009 09:37:56 -0600 craig morroni cj-morroni@qwest.net wrote:
I tried both.
Once the DVD is burned, the drive ejects.
This is correct s far.
When I re-insert the DVD, My Computer locks up and I cannot browse the DVD.
Does this occur if you reboot and then re-insert the DVD ? Obviously its a bug either way but it would help better understand what is going on.
Maybe the ISO is corrupt. Which burning software are you using?
craig morroni wrote:
I have tried two different .ISO downloads to two different machines Roxio Creator Business V10 on one machine and the other is another is a more general Roxio product on the second machine.
Both machines say they create the DVD, neither one works when I try to load the DVD in the target box.
I am comming in this late so this may already been asked, but are you burning the image, or burning a data DVD with the .iso image on it?
Mikkel
What I am trying to do is create a DVD on a windows machine so that I can move the DVD to a new box to load Fedora.
I cannot browse the DVD created on the windows machine and when I try to use the DVD in the new box that I want to load Fedora, when the new box tries to boot from the CD, I get a DISK BOOT Failure.
Since Windows has trouble browsing the DVD created and the new box indicates a disk boot failure, the ISO image is not getting to the DVD even though Roxio says that it is.
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
craig morroni wrote:
I have tried two different .ISO downloads to two different machines Roxio Creator Business V10 on one machine and the other is another is a more general Roxio product on the second machine.
Both machines say they create the DVD, neither one works when I try to load the DVD in the target box.
I am comming in this late so this may already been asked, but are you burning the image, or burning a data DVD with the .iso image on it?
Mikkel
Roxio wants to burn the image so this is what I am trying to do.
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
craig morroni wrote:
I have tried two different .ISO downloads to two different machines Roxio Creator Business V10 on one machine and the other is another is a more general Roxio product on the second machine.
Both machines say they create the DVD, neither one works when I try to load the DVD in the target box.
I am comming in this late so this may already been asked, but are you burning the image, or burning a data DVD with the .iso image on it?
Mikkel
Did you verify the hash to make sure you'd not gotten a corrupted image? That's what it sounds like happened.
craig morroni wrote:
Roxio wants to burn the image so this is what I am trying to do.
Try downloading some freeware buring app. Roxio under it's previous name Adaptec EasyCD. It was crap probably still is. iirc it mucked up the toc.
Better yet, Use liveusb creator on Windows and make a bootable usb-stickfrom the iso: http://preview.tinyurl.com/33dyne
Frank
If one can't go to the fedoraproject.org website and not get a corrupt image, where does one go? Has anyone else downloaded this site image and getting results (i.e. the ability to load the OS)?
I have downloaded the image to two different computers from this website.
John Aldrich wrote:
Did you verify the hash to make sure you'd not gotten a corrupted image? That's what it sounds like happened.
2009/5/24 craig morroni cj-morroni@qwest.net:
If one can't go to the fedoraproject.org website and not get a corrupt image, where does one go? Â Has anyone else downloaded this site image and getting results (i.e. the ability to load the OS)?
I have downloaded the image to two different computers from this website.
Are you using direct download? If so try using torrents. Direct downloads often screw up large files. Advantage of using torrent is your bittorrent client verifies the checksum of the downloaded image automatically. So you are ensured of an uncorrupted download.
Also you might try mounting the image on a virtual drive on windows to check whether the image works or not. Another way to inspect would be to try extracting the contents of the iso using 7-zip. Either of these should allow you to check the integrity of the image.
On 5/24/2009 5:35 PM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3d) wrote:
craig morroni wrote:
Roxio wants to burn the image so this is what I am trying to do.
Try downloading some freeware buring app. Roxio under it's previous name Adaptec EasyCD. It was crap probably still is. iirc it mucked up the toc.
Better yet, Use liveusb creator on Windows and make a bootable usb-stickfrom the iso: http://preview.tinyurl.com/33dyne
This is a good one.
CDBurnerXP http://cdburnerxp.se/
Works on Vista also. Not Open Source but free to use.
On Sunday 24 May 2009, craig morroni wrote:
If one can't go to the fedoraproject.org website and not get a corrupt image, where does one go? Has anyone else downloaded this site image and getting results (i.e. the ability to load the OS)?
I have downloaded the image to two different computers from this website.
John Aldrich wrote:
Did you verify the hash to make sure you'd not gotten a corrupted image? That's what it sounds like happened.
2 questions. The most important being 'how' did you download it. Windows stuff is very fond of treating any download as a text download, and it will conveniently convert any carriage returns in finds into linefeed+carriage returns in order to match the windows way of doing things. It is NOT a mistake in their eyes, and they take great delight in having screwed up and made non-usable, yet another binary download just because downloading a binary just HAS to be a pirated copy of windows _as_ _they_ _see_ _it_.
These downloads all have the ability to be checked with a check program, and it could be either sha1sum or md5sum. sha1sum is several times more secure than md5sum, but md5sum will also catch 99.9999999999% of the errors. So, check your download using one of those utilities, and if the copy you downloaded tests good, then the burner program should work IF you tell it to burn the file using that file as an iso image.
If, when the burned disk is reloaded into the drive, you see a single file of the same name as the one you burnt, THAT BURN IS WRONG. You should be seeing a directory listing of what is on the cd, not another copy of the file you burnt. The iso image is exactly that, a complete, self contained filesystem that when mounted using the iso9660 option as the filesystem, shows you the contents of that filesystem. And if your bios can boot from the cd, it should do so automatically on the reboot.
IHTH.
On 5/24/2009 6:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 24 May 2009, craig morroni wrote:
If one can't go to the fedoraproject.org website and not get a corrupt image, where does one go? Has anyone else downloaded this site image and getting results (i.e. the ability to load the OS)?
I have downloaded the image to two different computers from this website.
John Aldrich wrote:
Did you verify the hash to make sure you'd not gotten a corrupted image? That's what it sounds like happened.
2 questions. The most important being 'how' did you download it. Windows stuff is very fond of treating any download as a text download, and it will conveniently convert any carriage returns in finds into linefeed+carriage returns in order to match the windows way of doing things. It is NOT a mistake in their eyes, and they take great delight in having screwed up and made non-usable, yet another binary download just because downloading a binary just HAS to be a pirated copy of windows _as_ _they_ _see_ _it_.
Been a while for you has it not? :-) Windows downloads files just like Linux. Has for many, many years. Did before too. It was normally PEBCAK that messed things up back then.
These downloads all have the ability to be checked with a check program, and it could be either sha1sum or md5sum. sha1sum is several times more secure than md5sum, but md5sum will also catch 99.9999999999% of the errors. So, check your download using one of those utilities, and if the copy you downloaded tests good, then the burner program should work IF you tell it to burn the file using that file as an iso image.
That can be done in Windows also. I you, the OP, care I will point you to the application locations.
If, when the burned disk is reloaded into the drive, you see a single file of the same name as the one you burnt, THAT BURN IS WRONG. You should be seeing a directory listing of what is on the cd, not another copy of the file you burnt. The iso image is exactly that, a complete, self contained filesystem that when mounted using the iso9660 option as the filesystem, shows you the contents of that filesystem. And if your bios can boot from the cd, it should do so automatically on the reboot.
The OP is running Windows Gene. He needs answers that fits his current OS.
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 19:46:32 -0400, David dgboles@comcast.net wrote:
Been a while for you has it not? :-) Windows downloads files just like Linux. Has for many, many years. Did before too. It was normally PEBCAK that messed things up back then.
No it wasn't. It was IE using the file name instead of the content-type header to determine the type of content in the file.
On Sunday 24 May 2009, David wrote:
On 5/24/2009 6:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 24 May 2009, craig morroni wrote:
If one can't go to the fedoraproject.org website and not get a corrupt image, where does one go? Has anyone else downloaded this site image and getting results (i.e. the ability to load the OS)?
I have downloaded the image to two different computers from this website.
John Aldrich wrote:
Did you verify the hash to make sure you'd not gotten a corrupted image? That's what it sounds like happened.
2 questions. The most important being 'how' did you download it. Windows stuff is very fond of treating any download as a text download, and it will conveniently convert any carriage returns in finds into linefeed+carriage returns in order to match the windows way of doing things. It is NOT a mistake in their eyes, and they take great delight in having screwed up and made non-usable, yet another binary download just because downloading a binary just HAS to be a pirated copy of windows _as_ _they_ _see_ _it_.
Been a while for you has it not? :-) Windows downloads files just like Linux. Has for many, many years. Did before too. It was normally PEBCAK that messed things up back then.
These downloads all have the ability to be checked with a check program, and it could be either sha1sum or md5sum. sha1sum is several times more secure than md5sum, but md5sum will also catch 99.9999999999% of the errors. So, check your download using one of those utilities, and if the copy you downloaded tests good, then the burner program should work IF you tell it to burn the file using that file as an iso image.
That can be done in Windows also. I you, the OP, care I will point you to the application locations.
If, when the burned disk is reloaded into the drive, you see a single file of the same name as the one you burnt, THAT BURN IS WRONG. You should be seeing a directory listing of what is on the cd, not another copy of the file you burnt. The iso image is exactly that, a complete, self contained filesystem that when mounted using the iso9660 option as the filesystem, shows you the contents of that filesystem. And if your bios can boot from the cd, it should do so automatically on the reboot.
The OP is running Windows Gene. He needs answers that fits his current OS.
TBT, I only jumped in with the most basic stuff because obviously the OP was not getting the answers he needed. The thread is quite a few messages long now.
And since when did winders get religion? I did 4 or 5 dl's on my XP equipt lappy when I was up in MI the last time, and it made a 256k eeprom binary about 410 bytes longer than the eprom and invalid when checked after I tried to burn it to carry it to a piece of transmitter gear that needed an updated OS.
What other conclusion could I draw, when the linux firefox, because of miss- placed security on the makers web site that contained the download, was not able to be configured enough like IE to be acceptable and allow me to download the passwd and IE requiring upgrade. I had words that were NOT pleasant with the maker of the gear over that little 3 days wasted time killer. I burnt 5 or 6 cd's before I made it work, each one accompanied by a 3 mile one way trip up the hill to see if it was acceptable to the gear. The copy I actually made work was the one I pulled with linux after I threatened to sue if they didn't give me a link that bypassed the windows IE check.
Every time I tangle with winderz, it costs me time and/or money, usually both. In this exact case, it made me money because of the wasted time, but it sure reinforced my hatred for winderz. If every windows box on the planet died yet today, its IMO 20 years past due.
On 5/24/2009 8:25 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 24 May 2009, David wrote:
On 5/24/2009 6:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 24 May 2009, craig morroni wrote:
If one can't go to the fedoraproject.org website and not get a corrupt image, where does one go? Has anyone else downloaded this site image and getting results (i.e. the ability to load the OS)?
I have downloaded the image to two different computers from this website.
John Aldrich wrote:
Did you verify the hash to make sure you'd not gotten a corrupted image? That's what it sounds like happened.
2 questions. The most important being 'how' did you download it. Windows stuff is very fond of treating any download as a text download, and it will conveniently convert any carriage returns in finds into linefeed+carriage returns in order to match the windows way of doing things. It is NOT a mistake in their eyes, and they take great delight in having screwed up and made non-usable, yet another binary download just because downloading a binary just HAS to be a pirated copy of windows _as_ _they_ _see_ _it_.
Been a while for you has it not? :-) Windows downloads files just like Linux. Has for many, many years. Did before too. It was normally PEBCAK that messed things up back then.
These downloads all have the ability to be checked with a check program, and it could be either sha1sum or md5sum. sha1sum is several times more secure than md5sum, but md5sum will also catch 99.9999999999% of the errors. So, check your download using one of those utilities, and if the copy you downloaded tests good, then the burner program should work IF you tell it to burn the file using that file as an iso image.
That can be done in Windows also. I you, the OP, care I will point you to the application locations.
If, when the burned disk is reloaded into the drive, you see a single file of the same name as the one you burnt, THAT BURN IS WRONG. You should be seeing a directory listing of what is on the cd, not another copy of the file you burnt. The iso image is exactly that, a complete, self contained filesystem that when mounted using the iso9660 option as the filesystem, shows you the contents of that filesystem. And if your bios can boot from the cd, it should do so automatically on the reboot.
The OP is running Windows Gene. He needs answers that fits his current OS.
TBT, I only jumped in with the most basic stuff because obviously the OP was not getting the answers he needed. The thread is quite a few messages long now.
And since when did winders get religion? I did 4 or 5 dl's on my XP equipt lappy when I was up in MI the last time, and it made a 256k eeprom binary about 410 bytes longer than the eprom and invalid when checked after I tried to burn it to carry it to a piece of transmitter gear that needed an updated OS.
What other conclusion could I draw, when the linux firefox, because of miss- placed security on the makers web site that contained the download, was not able to be configured enough like IE to be acceptable and allow me to download the passwd and IE requiring upgrade. I had words that were NOT pleasant with the maker of the gear over that little 3 days wasted time killer. I burnt 5 or 6 cd's before I made it work, each one accompanied by a 3 mile one way trip up the hill to see if it was acceptable to the gear. The copy I actually made work was the one I pulled with linux after I threatened to sue if they didn't give me a link that bypassed the windows IE check.
Every time I tangle with winderz, it costs me time and/or money, usually both. In this exact case, it made me money because of the wasted time, but it sure reinforced my hatred for winderz. If every windows box on the planet died yet today, its IMO 20 years past due.
Then, like Bruno, your problem(s) is PEBCAK or incorrect settings.
Windows does not do that. Users do that. An ISO will download as an ISO. If, before the download *you* name the download, say 'something.txt' it is still and ISO. And will be treated as one.
Sorry Gene. But you're wrong here.
On Sunday 24 May 2009, David wrote: and Gene replied:
TBT, I only jumped in with the most basic stuff because obviously the OP was not getting the answers he needed. The thread is quite a few messages long now.
And since when did winders get religion? I did 4 or 5 dl's on my XP equipt lappy when I was up in MI the last time, and it made a 256k eeprom binary about 410 bytes longer than the eprom and invalid when checked after I tried to burn it to carry it to a piece of transmitter gear that needed an updated OS.
What other conclusion could I draw, when the linux firefox, because of miss- placed security on the makers web site that contained the download, was not able to be configured enough like IE to be acceptable and allow me to download the passwd and IE requiring upgrade. I had words that were NOT pleasant with the maker of the gear over that little 3 days wasted time killer. I burnt 5 or 6 cd's before I made it work, each one accompanied by a 3 mile one way trip up the hill to see if it was acceptable to the gear. The copy I actually made work was the one I pulled with linux after I threatened to sue if they didn't give me a link that bypassed the windows IE check.
Every time I tangle with winderz, it costs me time and/or money, usually both. In this exact case, it made me money because of the wasted time, but it sure reinforced my hatred for winderz. If every windows box on the planet died yet today, its IMO 20 years past due.
Then, like Bruno, your problem(s) is PEBCAK or incorrect settings.
Windows does not do that. Users do that. An ISO will download as an ISO. If, before the download *you* name the download, say 'something.txt' it is still and ISO. And will be treated as one.
Sorry Gene. But you're wrong here.
The file was in fact labeled as a .bin. And I did not try to rename it. Their downloading mechanism only gave me one choice, where to put it, I let it choose the default. I even mounted the XP partition, found it and copied it to F7/ext3. And it was not 262,144 bytes long as retrieved from the ntfs partition, but more like 262,566 IIRC for 3 different downloads. The first I tried to burn with the winderz freebie burner but it BSOD'd twice before it looked like it worked the third time. The burn was rejected, bad checksum, which is when I found it was also too long, so that was evidence enough to me that windows was still up to it old tricks.
I used XP and IE to pull that file 4 times, and got the same too long and broken file every time. I was by them also getting aggravated with their one use only passwds that I had to call them and get another one each time. The 5th time, I called them up and said this isn't working. The gear as it is, is not usable, and we have a 5 figure sum in it, you can either let me pull the update it needs by a direct link, or my next call will be to corporate & we'll let the courts decide who owes who what. They gave me the direct link, I pulled it with one of the old FF's, used k3b to put it on the cd, like I had 3 times before with the IE downloads, and it worked.
Now admittedly I try to stay the hell away from windows, so maybe there was some knob to twiddle in IE that might have fixed that, but it was running at its as installed default settings. If it was supposed to be smart enough to do it right, it failed that class.
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 20:43:43 -0400, David dgboles@comcast.net wrote:
Then, like Bruno, your problem(s) is PEBCAK or incorrect settings.
No it wasn't. IE used to be screwed up. The Microsoft people thought it was a feature to be outguessing the web server in case the content was mislabelled. Off course if you intentionally gave a content type of text/plain to whatever.html so that people could see the source, IE would not do that. Instead it would render it as html.
Windows does not do that. Users do that. An ISO will download as an ISO.
IE may be doing things correctly today. And it is possible for the web site to be screwed up and have labeled an iso as text/plain instead of application/octetstream which could cause problems. I wouldn't expect that to happen a site serving Fedora isos, but it might be worth checking to eliminate that as a possible cause.
On 5/24/2009 9:15 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 24 May 2009, David wrote: and Gene replied:
TBT, I only jumped in with the most basic stuff because obviously the OP was not getting the answers he needed. The thread is quite a few messages long now.
And since when did winders get religion? I did 4 or 5 dl's on my XP equipt lappy when I was up in MI the last time, and it made a 256k eeprom binary about 410 bytes longer than the eprom and invalid when checked after I tried to burn it to carry it to a piece of transmitter gear that needed an updated OS.
What other conclusion could I draw, when the linux firefox, because of miss- placed security on the makers web site that contained the download, was not able to be configured enough like IE to be acceptable and allow me to download the passwd and IE requiring upgrade. I had words that were NOT pleasant with the maker of the gear over that little 3 days wasted time killer. I burnt 5 or 6 cd's before I made it work, each one accompanied by a 3 mile one way trip up the hill to see if it was acceptable to the gear. The copy I actually made work was the one I pulled with linux after I threatened to sue if they didn't give me a link that bypassed the windows IE check.
Every time I tangle with winderz, it costs me time and/or money, usually both. In this exact case, it made me money because of the wasted time, but it sure reinforced my hatred for winderz. If every windows box on the planet died yet today, its IMO 20 years past due.
Then, like Bruno, your problem(s) is PEBCAK or incorrect settings.
Windows does not do that. Users do that. An ISO will download as an ISO. If, before the download *you* name the download, say 'something.txt' it is still and ISO. And will be treated as one.
Sorry Gene. But you're wrong here.
The file was in fact labeled as a .bin. And I did not try to rename it. Their downloading mechanism only gave me one choice, where to put it, I let it choose the default. I even mounted the XP partition, found it and copied it to F7/ext3. And it was not 262,144 bytes long as retrieved from the ntfs partition, but more like 262,566 IIRC for 3 different downloads. The first I tried to burn with the winderz freebie burner but it BSOD'd twice before it looked like it worked the third time. The burn was rejected, bad checksum, which is when I found it was also too long, so that was evidence enough to me that windows was still up to it old tricks.
I used XP and IE to pull that file 4 times, and got the same too long and broken file every time. I was by them also getting aggravated with their one use only passwds that I had to call them and get another one each time. The 5th time, I called them up and said this isn't working. The gear as it is, is not usable, and we have a 5 figure sum in it, you can either let me pull the update it needs by a direct link, or my next call will be to corporate & we'll let the courts decide who owes who what. They gave me the direct link, I pulled it with one of the old FF's, used k3b to put it on the cd, like I had 3 times before with the IE downloads, and it worked.
Now admittedly I try to stay the hell away from windows, so maybe there was some knob to twiddle in IE that might have fixed that, but it was running at its as installed default settings. If it was supposed to be smart enough to do it right, it failed that class.
This is OT here Gene. Write me off list with the details and I will test this.
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 24 May 2009, David wrote:
The OP is running Windows Gene. He needs answers that fits his current OS.
TBT, I only jumped in with the most basic stuff because obviously the OP was not getting the answers he needed. The thread is quite a few messages long now.
To switch away from Winblow$, he first needs a way to burn his Fedora images from Winblow$.
Kevin Kofler
On Sunday 24 May 2009, David wrote:
This is OT here Gene. Write me off list with the details and I will test this.
--
David
That problem was fixed 2 years ago. I have serious doubts the site being so problematic then even exists today, it certainly deserved to die, and I would have to go look at my notes, which are 1000 miles away in upstate MI before I could even name it correctly. My lappy has also been wiped and has either F8 or F9 on it now (whatever F# was fresh when I went to say goodby to Barbara in Nov. 2007), even if its been 6 months since it was last booted to anything. So there is not enough evidence left to prosecute, its best dropped.
The vendor who supplied us with it switched sources for that particular item shortly after that, and the next people have been much friendlier according to the vendor we get that stuff from. Seems I wasn't the only customer threatening legal action.
On Sun, 24 May 2009 15:37:49 -0600, craig morroni wrote:
If one can't go to the fedoraproject.org website and not get a corrupt image, where does one go? Has anyone else downloaded this site image and getting results (i.e. the ability to load the OS)?
I have downloaded the image to two different computers from this website.
Most of us here, over the last few years, have downloaded and burned many images with many computers and several burning programs. Nevertheless, things can go wrong in the transmission, and in this case your downloading software may have troubles.
Where are you located? Somebody on this list probably lives nearby, and could make you one. (I missed the start of the thread; please remind me which image you want.)
Don't give up, whatever you do. Once you get used to linux, you'll *hate* ever having to go back.
craig morroni wrote:
Good Morning:
I have downloaded the Rel 10 Fedora iso from the website (general link) so the files is F10-i686-live.iso to my windows desktop.
I have tried to create a dvd on two different machines that I write DVD's to all of the time. So this is not my first attempt at creating a DVD. In this case, I am telling Roxio to burn an image.
Roxio tells me everything is complete and ejects the DVD. When I take the DVD and try to explore, there isn't any information on the DVD.
Why?
The most likely reasons are (a) you created a media with a single file which is the ISO, rather than burning the image (Windows software needs to be told to burn an image as-is, some won't), or (b) you burned a CD image on a DVD, which works with some systems and not others. Don't ask why, some burners burn it right, some BIOS read it right, some people spend time arguing that "it should work," but others just avoid doing that. Some people have hardware which works that way and claim "it works for me" means it's good, reliable, portable practice.
Very high probability one of those two things is your problem, I lean toward not having burned the image, but I would check both.