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

Sun May 27 05:18:19 CEST 2012

2012/5/27 Simple . <simplew8 at gmail.com>:
+> 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.
+
+But i forgot to say that for Mageia 2 official release there is a
+problem with the .iso, using dd to save it to a USB pen disk doesnt
+set it as a bootable device, and this is a new bug to be reported.
+