On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 03:22:27PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Jianan Huang wrote: > > > Initially I intended to do a network installation. So I downloaded the > > necessary files to disk and launched the installation from there. I had > > a minimal system running and wanted to built up the system through the > > net using apt-get. On second thought, I decided to have a CD copy in > > case of disk crash. So I downloaded a binary-1 image and burned a CD > > with it. The CD shows one 500+ MB file with a .iso extension. > > You wrote the CD the wrong way. You wrote the image to CD as a file, but > you must write it as an CD image. If you do it correctley, you will not > see one file on the CD, but the contents of the image. Depending on the > program you use, you should try to find something like "Write CD from > image file" or "Track image". Please consult the manual of your cd > writing program for further information.
cdrecord -v dev=your,CD,writer filename.iso Is 500 a typo for 600? My binary-1 CD is 647MB. You might have an incomplete download, as well as an incorrectly-written CD. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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