[ltp] [Newbie] : Burning Caldera eDesktop 2.4

[James Hawtin]

Did you try booting from the CD? Does your computer support bootable CDs.
Depending on what file system the install CD uses windows many not be able
to use it. You should be able to down load the image of boot floppys from
there web site, then use rawwrite to create them.

Never having used getright I don't know if it could have "broken" then
image. Try getting a different distro, debian or redhat would be a good
start or get a different download program. Note IE 5 does support
"resumable downloads", however these can be broken by some web caches.

Get a copy of a utility called "wget" you can get binaries for windows,
then get an image from an FTP site not a HTTP site to avoid problem with
web caches.

Your other option is by a distro most don't cost much, a fully debian CD
set is about 10 dollars (I think)

Is you CD Burner creating other CDs ok? Are the blanks you use 80 or 74
minutes? I had a problem with mine, it would not burn valid images on 80
minute CDs, I took it to bits and clean the lens (I do not recommend this
as a first option) get a 74 minute CD!

James

On Thu, 10 May 2001, sylvestre meininger wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I know I'm missing something here.
> 
> I downloaded the CD image from Caldera's website using GetRight. The
> transfer (cable modem) was interrupted a few times, but I assume it went
> correctly since GetRight said so. Furthermore, the icon automatically linked
> the ISO file with my burning software.
> I burned it with Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4 following Caldera's ISO-Howto.txt
> instruction file. Everything went smoothly but what should have become the
> "Binaries and Installation CD" doesn't work. Windows can't even read it.
> The little ISO-Howto.txt file says to compare the cksum and md5sum values of
> my download with those provided by the download site, but I couldn't find
> these data on Caldera's website, so maybe there's something wrong here...
> The help file also mentions something about being cautious about Binary Vs
> ASCII formats, but I could not fathom what it meant : I just downloaded what
> was offered for download.
> 
> I'm sure I'm doing something wrong here. Anyone care to help ?
> 
> sylvestre
> 
> 
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