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sniffnoyI will detail just what the hell is going on with my laptop later. For now, the relevant fact is that I am trying to burn an Ubuntu installation CD. Seriously. That's all. This is an easy, easy procedure, right?
Since my own computer is down, I can do this on the house's common computer (running some form of Linux), or I can go to the office and use one of the school's computers (Macs). (Or I could borrow someone else's, yes, but I figure I should figure this out first.)
I bought a pack of 5 CD-RWs; I've wasted two on this so far.
First one, I did at home. Poked around the "applications" menu until I found a CD burning program (Brasero). When it was done, looked like all the stuff was there, but my laptop couldn't boot it. Weird, I thought; let's try that again, and check for any options I might have missed.
Well, that was a big waste of time, as somehow in the one day inbetween these attempts, the computer's HD had been filled up to the point there was no room to re-download the ISO? I don't claim to understand that. (I'd deleted the ISO after burning the CD the first time to save space, as it is a common computer.)
OK. Go to the office. Download the ISO. (Wow, that was fast, compared to home, I should have done it this way first!) Burn the CD, literally following the instructions on the Ubuntu website. All seems to go well, except once again, the damned thing isn't bootable. The Mac even tells me so when I put the disc back in it ("Bootable: no"). And Mac's Disk Utility doesn't seem to have any option for explicitly setting a CD you're writing to be bootable.
...what the hell's going on here? Do I need CD-Rs or something? (I hope not, the store was out of those. There were DVD-Rs, but I don't think the school's computer can write those.) Or was I actually doing something wrong here? Or what?
I guess I can try doing it from a USB stick next, otherwise... but... any ideas? :-/
ADDENDUM 2 HOURS LATER: So apparently Macs don't make a distinction between bootable and non-bootable CDs - presumably why Ubuntu's instructions don't bother with it! But, I am just using a Mac to do the burning, I am not trying to install Ubuntu on a Mac...
...also, it looks like these instructions for doing it on a USB stick will require administrative access.
New plan: Run home, get my USB stick, put the ISO on there, then burn the CD at home, this time making sure to do whatever is needed to make it bootable. That should work, right? Assuming I can figure out that last step. :P Any help is certainly appreciated...
-Harry
Since my own computer is down, I can do this on the house's common computer (running some form of Linux), or I can go to the office and use one of the school's computers (Macs). (Or I could borrow someone else's, yes, but I figure I should figure this out first.)
I bought a pack of 5 CD-RWs; I've wasted two on this so far.
First one, I did at home. Poked around the "applications" menu until I found a CD burning program (Brasero). When it was done, looked like all the stuff was there, but my laptop couldn't boot it. Weird, I thought; let's try that again, and check for any options I might have missed.
Well, that was a big waste of time, as somehow in the one day inbetween these attempts, the computer's HD had been filled up to the point there was no room to re-download the ISO? I don't claim to understand that. (I'd deleted the ISO after burning the CD the first time to save space, as it is a common computer.)
OK. Go to the office. Download the ISO. (Wow, that was fast, compared to home, I should have done it this way first!) Burn the CD, literally following the instructions on the Ubuntu website. All seems to go well, except once again, the damned thing isn't bootable. The Mac even tells me so when I put the disc back in it ("Bootable: no"). And Mac's Disk Utility doesn't seem to have any option for explicitly setting a CD you're writing to be bootable.
...what the hell's going on here? Do I need CD-Rs or something? (I hope not, the store was out of those. There were DVD-Rs, but I don't think the school's computer can write those.) Or was I actually doing something wrong here? Or what?
I guess I can try doing it from a USB stick next, otherwise... but... any ideas? :-/
ADDENDUM 2 HOURS LATER: So apparently Macs don't make a distinction between bootable and non-bootable CDs - presumably why Ubuntu's instructions don't bother with it! But, I am just using a Mac to do the burning, I am not trying to install Ubuntu on a Mac...
...also, it looks like these instructions for doing it on a USB stick will require administrative access.
New plan: Run home, get my USB stick, put the ISO on there, then burn the CD at home, this time making sure to do whatever is needed to make it bootable. That should work, right? Assuming I can figure out that last step. :P Any help is certainly appreciated...
-Harry
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Date: 2010-07-15 03:32 pm (UTC)I don't know how you'd do that off my head, but my thought is to set up a named pipe with a program feeding the ISO into it and just use that. That makes a number of assumptions, however, chief among them that the program generating the USB stick uses it as a single stream of data and doesn't need non-sequential reads on the file; I don't know how those programs work.
Mind you, that's probably far too complicated a solution for your problem. If you're willing to spend that much effort on the issue, it'd be a lot simpler to just hunt down whoever used up space on the house computer and tell them to delete their shit. :)