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

[John]

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