I downloaded CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso but I haven't used Centos before and I've haven't used a -bin-DVD.iso before,every attempt so far to burn one has produced coasters,what do I do to get an image. Thanks david
At Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:58:40 +1000 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:> > I downloaded CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso but I haven't used Centos > before and I've haven't used a -bin-DVD.iso before,every attempt so far > to burn one has produced coasters,what do I do to get an image.Were you burning it to a *DVD*-R? It is NOT a CD image. You need two things: 1) A DVD burner (as opposed to a CD burner). 2) A DVD-R (as opposed to a CD-R). Make sure you have the proper hardware and blank media. Also: did you download the md5sum file? Use that to do a check of the md5sum to make sure your ISO file is not broken.> > Thanks david > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >-- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/
On 15/04/10 09:58, david walcroft wrote:> I downloaded CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso but I haven't used Centos > before and I've haven't used a -bin-DVD.iso before,every attempt so far > to burn one has produced coasters,what do I do to get an image.I've had graphical apps give me coasters on occasion. From the command line you can try: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso (yes the syntax is a bit silly) Kal -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: kahlil_hodgson.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 170 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100415/f3582e47/attachment-0002.vcf>
On 04/15/2010 11:10 AM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote:> On 15/04/10 09:58, david walcroft wrote: >> I downloaded CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso but I haven't used Centos >> before and I've haven't used a -bin-DVD.iso before,every attempt so far >> to burn one has produced coasters,what do I do to get an image. > > I've had graphical apps give me coasters on occasion. From the command > line you can try: > > growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso > > (yes the syntax is a bit silly) > > Kal > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosI tried your command but this error came up [david at reddwarf ~]$ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=rpm/CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso :-( /dev/dvd: media is not recognized as recordable DVD: 0 I used a dvd-rw and a dvd-rw-dl with the same results. Thanks david
david walcroft wrote:> I downloaded CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso but I haven't used Centos > before and I've haven't used a -bin-DVD.iso before,every attempt so far > to burn one has produced coasters,what do I do to get an image. > > Thanks davidThis is how I burn linux ISO's, rarely results in bad burn. As root - cdrecord -dev=/dev/scd0 -speed=8 -dao -pad -v whatever.iso You might need to change /dev/scd0 depending upon your system, that works for me with a SATA burner. If your iso is not sitting on a separate physical drive from / and /home, try not to use any apps while the burn is taking place. Don't use a faster speed just because your burner supports it, I've found that the faster the burn the more likely some drives are to reject it as a boot disk even when the burn process doesn't report any errors, not sure why. If all else fails and you have a second computer, you can burn the small boot.iso and mount the dvd image on the second computer and make it available over http. Then boot off of the boot.iso and do a network install. I frequently do it that way, as I don't see the point in wasting a DVD-R when the first thing I'm going to do after successful install is run yum update to replace a lot of the packages.