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

[John]

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