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

[Simple .]

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.