Anybody have tricks to write the i386 ISO image to DVD?
I've tried DVD+-RW, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD-R in both Windows 7 (two different writers) and rebooted into CentOS 6 (x86_64) and tried cdrecord (now called wodim). On wodim I've tried overburn, reducing speeds, etc.
All give the same results: the same number of bytes are written - indicating the disc is full (according to my calculations) and wodim exits thinking it had a buffer underflow problem.
I had no problem creating the x86_64 install DVD, which is smaller, and installing it next to my Windows. I just plug in a usb thumb drive and hit <ESC> when I want to run CentOS there and it works fine.
The inability to create the i386 DVD initially prevented me from trying to install a desktop system on an old Acer running 4.8 (hasn't been booted in ... nearing a year?).
I got around that by deciding to put the iso image on an external usb drive, exporting it via nfs and doing a network install. It had been so long since I dinked with any of this stuff it took me a couple of days of googling around, reading man pages, ... to get that working. Mostly having to do with iptables ports not being open. Sheesh! Black Hats create a lot of grief with their shenanigans!
Anyway, then it panics when it starts writing the hard drives - I'll post another mail on that.
Anyway, my life would've (will be) a bit simpler if someone can clue me in to how to get that image onto a DVD using either CentOS 6 or Windows.
Checksums pass.
Any hints gratefully accepted.
TIA, Bill
From: William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com
Anyway, my life would've (will be) a bit simpler if someone can clue me in to how to get that image onto a DVD using either CentOS 6 or Windows.
As stated in the release notes, you need a DVD-R. In my case, k3b failed to write it but regular gnome "CD/DVD Creator" worked...
JD
On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 02:48 -0700, John Doe wrote:
From: William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com
Anyway, my life would've (will be) a bit simpler if someone can clue me in to how to get that image onto a DVD using either CentOS 6 or Windows.
As stated in the release notes, you need a DVD-R. In my case, k3b failed to write it but regular gnome "CD/DVD Creator" worked...
The DVD-R was the first one I tried, because of the notes. But I never tried the gnome creator. In fact, being old-school, command line is always my preference and I didn't try any GUI ones except on windows - where I claim (too proudly) complete ignorance. I'm a TDU (Typical Dumb User) there.
Thanks - I'll give that a try and report back. And I'm not sure I tried the DVD-R with wodim either - by the time I got there I was on to trying the other formats and (I'm pretty sure) forgot to rotate back to that.
Frustration does funny things to logic.
JD
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Thanks, Bill
On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 06:47 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 02:48 -0700, John Doe wrote:
From: William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com
Anyway, my life would've (will be) a bit simpler if someone can clue me in to how to get that image onto a DVD using either CentOS 6 or Windows.
As stated in the release notes, you need a DVD-R. In my case, k3b failed to write it but regular gnome "CD/DVD Creator" worked...
The DVD-R was the first one I tried, because of the notes. But I never tried the gnome creator. In fact, being old-school, command line is always my preference and I didn't try any GUI ones except on windows - where I claim (too proudly) complete ignorance. I'm a TDU (Typical Dumb User) there.
Thanks - I'll give that a try and report back. And I'm not sure I tried the DVD-R with wodim either - by the time I got there I was on to trying the other formats and (I'm pretty sure) forgot to rotate back to that.
Worked like a champ on Windows using Power2Go! I wonder what I did wrong first time around! When I reboot that box to CentOS, I'll try wodim again - I bet it works and I never tried the DVD-R in there.
Thanks for taking the time!
Frustration does funny things to logic.
JD
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Bill
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:47 PM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
Frustration does funny things to logic.
Ha! Nice one.
Cheers,
Cliff
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