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

Sun May 27 05:51:58 CEST 2012

On Sun, 27 May 2012 04:18:19 +0100
+Simple . wrote:
+
+> 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.
+
+Yes, it is a suggested tool for Windows users, it still requires the user
+to understand how tyhe tool needs to be used - correct?
+
+> >
+> >> 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?
+
+Of course there is, go to the website!
+
+> >
+> >> 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.
+> 
+
+This is NOT a new bug!
+
+One again, your methods are the problem.
+
+Countless other users have managed to write .iso images to USB sticks and
+install from them.
+
+Well in excess of two months of testing of USB installs preceeded the
+release.
+
+I say again, look to your methods
+
+JohnR
+