On Thu, 12 May 2011 17:29:58 -0700, Michael Selinger wrote: > I'm interested in trying out Debian's OS. I downloaded from your > website, which > took a half hour even with a high speed cable connection. I then sent > it on to my E-drive, to burn it onto a disc. After 17 mins., I forced a > shutdown...log message "Burn failed." I'm at a loss. Never had a > problem burning a cd or dvd on this unit.
Once you downloaded the ISO file, did you check the md5sum? >From what OS and what burning program? "Burn failed" is a very generic message, but seems to come from the burning app. > Any suggestions? I would like to get away from relying on Windows, and > try your OS, as I heard it was superior. Yep, you can use CD-RW/DVD-RW (or even an USB flash drive) as the installation source media, I mean, just in case something goes wrong to avoid having a pile of useless CDs ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.13.16.53...@gmail.com
