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

Sun May 27 04:37:21 CEST 2012

2012/5/27 John <john at neodoc.biz>:
+> 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 instead calling _You_ you had first went to
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installation_Media  *you* had easily see
+that Rufus is a recommended tool to burn Linux .iso's.
+
+> If _you_ had used the application correctly, you would have written the
+> iso image to the device.
+
+Now theres a correct way to use Rufus?
+
+> The applcation _you_ used to write the content of the iso to the devive
+> truncated the long filenames.
+
+I simply followed what was written in Mageia wiki regarding burning a
+ISO to a USB pen disk.
+
+
+
+Also i didnt had any linux OS to be able to burn it for example with dd.
+