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

[Simple .]

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.