[Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 DVD 64bits install is broken

Sun May 27 04:28:40 CEST 2012

On Sun, 27 May 2012 02:47:26 +0100
+Simple . wrote:
+
+> 2012/5/26 zezinho <lists.jjorge at free.fr>:
+> > Em 26-05-2012 02:07, Simple . escreveu:
+> >
+> >> i used rufus in windows to burn the .iso into the usb, now i dont know
+> >> if this is specifically caused by rufus or if this is caused by other
+> >> thing, and here would be better that others could test and reproduce
+> >> this.
+> >
+> >> ...
+> >
+> >> So when in the USB pen disk i renamed the packages to its original
+> >> filenames, the install went fine and finally made to conclude with
+> >> sucess Mageia 2 install.
+> >
+> >
+> > I don't know rufus, but as you are able to modify the names of the
+> > files in the USB, this is not a simple dump of the ISO : an ISO image
+> > cannot be modified. This is so a modified DVD image, that seems to
+> > introduce new bugs.
+> >
+> > The only way I know to put Mageia's ISO in a USB key is :
+> >
+> > dd if=DVD.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=8M
+> >
+> > (the bs option is only to accelerate writing speed).
+> 
+> I really dont get what you mean, no one modified the .iso image or its
+> contents, and what i said is that the packages with long filenames
+> were modified, the end of the packages names didnt appear., so instead
+> appearing in the USB pen disk:
+> 
+> telepathy-kde-common-internals-translations-0.3.0-1.mga2.noarch.rpm
+> vboxadditions-kernel-3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2-4.1.12-5.mga2.x86_64.rpm
+> vboxadditions-kernel-3.3.6-netbook-2.mga2-4.1.12-5.mga2.x86_64.rpm
+> 
+> it was appearing:
+> 
+> telepathy-kde-common-internals-translations-0.3.0-1.mga2.noar
+> vboxadditions-kernel-3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2-4.1.12-5.mga2.x86
+> vboxadditions-kernel-3.3.6-netbook-2.mga2-4.1.12-5.mga2.x86
+> 
+> and after i renamed the packages to its original names the install went
+> ok.
+> 
+
+_You_ used a Windows application to write the image to the USB key.
+
+If _you_ had used the application correctly, you would have written the
+iso image to the device.
+
+The applcation _you_ used to write the content of the iso to the devive
+truncated the long filenames.
+
+_You_ made the errors.
+
+JohnR
+