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[Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bob,

does the iso that you are using pass the md5?

If you're using the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu#Download Lubuntu then I
can ask as to how the iso burns to a usb with checking the md5.

Regards,

Phill.

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Bob Trevithick <bob.trevithick@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Okay, I'll try to wrap my head around the whole problem and see if I
> can write it up coherently.. after a bit of sleep. :)
>
> In the meantime, with the USB install, I have the same issues I noted
> in my opening post.. and looking at the USB stick I notice that the
> boot.cat file still has the wrong md5sum (if that's relevant.)  So, my
> initial post still stands if any of those things are of interest at
> the moment.
>
> Tomorrow I'll see precisely what it takes to overcome the dim display
> problem.  And I have to sort out wireless and a few other things.  Let
> me know, please, what would be most useful to you folks at this stage.
>
> Night,
> Bob
>
> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hi Bob,
> > If the CD is not burned at 4X speed, it can cause horrors. In 9.10 I
> could
> > burn at that rate, in 10.04 I cannot. As a part of these 'funnies' that
> > happen, one of the tech guys told me that he could not burn at 4X in 9.10
> > but can do in 10.04 .....
> > I have learned to 'cheat' and use CD-RW's or DVD-RW's which keeps the
> burn
> > speed down.
> >
> > Oh, and I've used brassero etc., it seems to be a kernel issue but one
> that
> > is really hard to nail down.
> > Regards,
> > Phill.
> > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Bob Trevithick <bob.trevithick@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Sure, I can write up a version for Maverick, as soon as I understand
> >> what's actually happening with the whole process.  I mean, I took
> >> Andy's advice and made a bootable USB stick instead (much faster than
> >> the CD.. glad I learned about that) but I still don't know why the CD
> >> burn process is causing errors, etc.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Those instructions are solely for the 10.04 disk, if you are using a
> >> > different installation method then the check sum will be different.
> >> > If you pop over to the
> >> > thread http://forum.phillw.net/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=94 that gives the
> >> > 10.04
> >> > release, I would need to update it for the release levels for the
> >> > alphas, or
> >> > I could give you the instructions as to how to write them :p
> >> > Possibly the md5 | cdrom command may be easier for people, as it only
> >> > requires the md5 sum to check against.
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Phill.
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Bob Trevithick
> >> > <bob.trevithick@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Ah, well, hmm.  I don't get the correct md5sum according to this
> >> >> method either, Phill.
> >> >>
> >> >> bob@ub32:~$ dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum
> >> >> 0e9fac900c8288b243e875d9b1b65479  -
> >> >> 266741+0 records in
> >> >> 266741+0 records out
> >> >> 546285568 bytes (546 MB) copied, 112.087 s, 4.9 MB/s
> >> >>
> >> >> So, I tried yet another approach and burned one with Nautilus as per
> >> >> the instructions.  For the first time, I got an actual error during
> >> >> the burn.  It didn't tell me what was wrong, but at least it alerted
> >> >> me to the burning error.
> >> >>
> >> >> Okay, I've tried to burn this on three different machines, using
> three
> >> >> different burning applications, and two different types of blank CDs.
> >> >> Maybe I'm not cut out for this kind of work. ;-)
> >> >>
> >> >> I'll download the 32-bit alternate CD, do a command-line install, and
> >> >> then apt-get the lubuntu-desktop package.  That should give me the
> >> >> same thing I'm trying to do here, right?
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks!
> >> >>
> >> >> Regards,
> >> >> Bob
> >> >>
> >> >> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> > dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum
> >> >>
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