Ubuntu Ultimate Problems - Is it just me?
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| Author | Content |
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| techiem2 Jan 26, 2008 1:26 PM EDT |
I've been trying to test out Ubuntu Ultimate, but there seems to be something wrong with the ISO. k3b can't verify it after writing it. dmesg shows io errors when looking at the disc. I've tried 3 burns. Most machines I've put one in can't boot it, or boot it horribly slow. Qemu seems to fire up the iso fine (never loads the desktop properly though...but that could just be qemu), and I don't have this problem with other DVDs I've burned. |
| tuxchick Jan 26, 2008 1:58 PM EDT |
Can you mount the ISO? mount -o loop iso-name mountpoint This is another way to see if the ISO is OK or not. You should see all the files inside the ISO. Is there a checksum to compare? |
| techiem2 Jan 26, 2008 2:25 PM EDT |
The iso mounts fine. The file size and md5sum match what the site says. But for some reason once I burn that ISO to disc... Weird eh? |
| Sander_Marechal Jan 26, 2008 2:29 PM EDT |
Does the disk mount fine itself? What if you create an ISO from your disk. Does that one work? Does the md5sum of the newsly created ISO match the one from the original ISO? |
| pat Jan 26, 2008 3:16 PM EDT |
Can't seem to find Ubuntu Ultimate at http://www.ubuntu.com. I wonder what Ubuntu thinks about them using their trademark. |
| Abe Jan 26, 2008 3:49 PM EDT |
Quoting:Can't seem to find Ubuntu Ultimate...Is this the Ultimate you are looking for? http://ultimateedition.info/ |
| Abe Jan 26, 2008 3:56 PM EDT |
Quoting:But for some reason once I burn that ISO to disc... Weird eh?@techiem2, Did you write it to a rewritable disk CDRW? That might be causing the weirdness you are seeing. I had similar issue when I burnt on CDRW. Try on CDR disk. |
| techiem2 Jan 26, 2008 5:10 PM EDT |
It's a DVD-R. I can't mount the disc after I burn it. So...I don't think I can make a new ISO of it if the system won't even read it... I'll have to try on my laptop later if it will see it... |
| gus3 Jan 26, 2008 8:52 PM EDT |
Have you tried a dummy burn? Watch for buffer underruns... |
| Bob_Robertson Jan 27, 2008 4:36 AM EDT |
Is it Ultimate Edition, or _Signature_ Ultimate Edition? |
| cyber_rigger Feb 14, 2008 9:57 AM EDT |
You might want to check the md5sum of the physical disk that you burned. This is one way to check a CD. sudo md5sum /dev/cdrom or a DVD sudo md5sum /dev/dvd |
| techiem2 Feb 14, 2008 11:47 AM EDT |
That's the problem, my system wouldn't read the discs after burning them. It did the same with 1.7. A friend burned one and that worked fine for me. It's like there's something about those ISOs in combination with my burner or discs.... I burned a Mandriva DVD directly after a UUE DVD to be sure it wasn't my burner going bad. Mandriva DVD was perfect, UUE DVD couldn't be read by system. |
| tracyanne Feb 14, 2008 12:08 PM EDT |
Sounds like the ISO was corrupted. Mind you I couldn't get a good copy of UUE to run properly anyway. It failed to recognise hardware that Mandriva had no trouble with. On the other hand I have MythBuntu 7.10 installed on my media machine, and it runs like a charm. |
| techiem2 Feb 14, 2008 12:23 PM EDT |
That's what it seems like, but 2 different versions, one downloaded twice to be sure, and the ISOs match the checksums given?
It's just....weird. The once I booted it up with friend's Disc it seemed kinda nice, but didn't play with it much. I'm planning to order my laptop with Ubuntu Studio preinstalled since ZaReason offers it as an option and I've kinda wanted to play with it. Of course, I'm going to have them leave most of the disk unpartitioned so I can do my normal gentoo install and have space for testing other distros. :) |
| ColonelPanik Feb 14, 2008 12:26 PM EDT |
Was your DL a torrent?
If so, try a FTP DL. For some time now all the torrents I have tried were borked. No problems with FTP or HTTP DLs though. |
| gus3 Feb 14, 2008 9:09 PM EDT |
Try slowing down the burn to 4x or 12x. Anything I share with others, I burn at 4x, to accommodate the differences between CD drives. |
| techiem2 Feb 14, 2008 10:04 PM EDT |
I've never had a problem with any other CD/DVD I've burned, so I'm pretty sure it's not a speed issue, especially when the disc won't read on the drive that burned it.... I'll have to try a different brand disc at some point and see if that makes a difference, but I wouldn't think it would since all the other dvds I've burned are fine...but ya never know...the whole thing is just really weird... |
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