[PLUG] Using K3b to Kreate Koasters
Russ Johnson
russj at dimstar.net
Thu May 19 17:03:13 UTC 2005
John Jordan wrote:
>OK, I tried that. I have the ISO file above in the Burn ISO9660
>Image window, in the Image to Burn box. But down below it says
>No Image File Selected and the Start button is grayed out.
>
>
If the file is valid, it will show the information for the image. Valid
or not, this will include an MD5sum that you can compare to that md5.asc
file you have.
It sounds like you didn't get a complete file.
What are the contents of the md5.asc and sha1.asc files? You should have
a checksum in each. You can get an md5sum on the iso file with the
following command:
#md5sum Mandriva-Linux-2005-Limited-Edition-DVD.x86_64.iso
This will result in a string of numbers and letters with the filename
after it. Compare this string to the contents of the md5.asc file. If
they don't match, you don't have a valid file. Depending on how you
downloaded the file, you may be able to recover, or you may have to
download the whole file again.
>Previously I used Nautilus to do something that made an ISO
>image on disk, which I thought included all three files. When I put
>this image in the Image to Burn box it shows down below a filesize
>of 366 Kb and an Md5 Sum, among other things.
>
Well, an md5sum can be generated for any file. You have to compare it to
the string from a known good source to verify the file.
> The Start button
>is enabled. But when I click start it appears to burn it to DVD, but
>when it is done all that is on the DVD are the two small files. The
>ISO that I made on disk with Nautilus is 366 Kb. And I don't
>remember how I made it, but it must have been wrong.
>
>
So it sounds like you are burning an iso that contains those two files,
not an iso that contains the Mandrake installation dvd.
>Part of what I don't understand is why the file I downloaded from
>Mandriva Club is actually three files, one of which is an ISO that
>doesn't include the data necessary to burn it to DVD as an image.
>
>
Without knowing the exact steps you went through at the time, there's no
way for us to know either. It doesn't really matter anyway. What we need
to do is determine what you do have, and go forward from here.
Let us know what the results of the md5sum test above is, and we'll try
to go forward from there.
Russ
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