geden Posted July 19, 2005 Report Share Posted July 19, 2005 (edited) Grabbed this distro with bittorrent and found out 1. ISO is compressed, so I had to decompress file(s) and reburn images back to hardrive to create a bootable cd ...this needs simplified. Download iso...burn directly to disk, make it that easy. 2. Disk 4 shows up in nero as some 898Mb. A little too large for my 700Mb disk, did someone make a boo-boo? This is the file structure of the disk 4 I got...what is wrong with it, seems many files replicated within folders .. DKMS media-----------> [ dkms [main4 [ plugins [firmwares [ modules Firmware Modules Plugins anyone willing to verify this? or suggest what fat to trim to create the iso? Edited July 19, 2005 by geden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted July 19, 2005 Report Share Posted July 19, 2005 Greets! We are not officially affiliated with Mandriva. We are a community of users who happen to be their best tech support! (No charge to them!) The iso's are not compressed. Just download and burn. Would you list the source of the download? is it official? I have never had any trouble with Mandrake/Mandriva as far as size of their media. Did you get the iso of the dvd by mistake?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geden Posted July 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2005 Actually I got it directly from Mandrivaclub (I'm a silver member) The other cd's seemed to burn ok but they did first appear as a compressed file. Neither Nero or kB3 would treat thse raw downloads as an iso. I physically had to decompress each downloaded cd (with winrar), store it on my HD and use Nero to create image files from the extracted files. THEN I could actually burn a bootable install cd. ...It was odd as I have done it your way before successfully(with 10.1pp) but it just wouldn't fly this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted July 19, 2005 Report Share Posted July 19, 2005 I physically had to decompress each downloaded cd (with winrar) You'll have to redownload cd-4 and any other iso you let winrar touch. These are not compressed files; they are isos. The windows winrar has the ability to open/extract an iso so you can see what files it contains. Winrar also automatically associates itself with all .iso files in windows and gives every iso a .rar file extension. This is a common problem and there are other posts on the board about it. In general, letting winrar extract the iso makes the data unusable for cd burning purposes so you will have to redownload. For each cd you should have a single .iso file which you burn as an image in nero. Extracted isos from winrar will have a directory tree of the files that will ultimately wind up on the cd if you burn them but burning these files to a cdr as a data cd won't work. Redownload and reset the preferences in winrar so it doesn't automatically glom onto every iso and try to extract it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 20, 2005 Report Share Posted July 20, 2005 You'll have to redownload cd-4 and any other iso you let winrar touch. Absolutely not. Winrar does not modify ISO images in any way, it just reads them and extracts files+folders- and even this function is not complete, for example it won't vbe able to read the MAC part of a hybrid ISO image. So, unless he deleted the downloaded images and/or the images were not corrupted by the BT client, they are still perfectly usable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted July 20, 2005 Report Share Posted July 20, 2005 You should just be able to choose File/Open in Nero and then find the ISO, click OK, and then go for burning the CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted July 20, 2005 Report Share Posted July 20, 2005 Winrar doesn't modify the data, but the chances of the data winding up in the exact sectors on the cd as the original when you burn the extracted data as a data cd are nil. This may be OK for cd-4 but it will render the bootable cds, cd-1 and cd-2, unbootable. For a cd to be bootable, certain specific data must appear on certain cd sectors. Burning the iso as an image insures this is the case because it gives you a sector by sector exact copy of the original cd. I haven't used nero for a while, but I doubt geden's step 1 will work properly as nero creates DOS bootable cds in a manner different than all linux distros use(i.e. with the isolinux bootloader). At any rate, this is a recurring problem with winrar that has been gone over many times. See for eg: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...&hl=winrar&st=0 https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=20221&hl=winrar https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=17010&hl=winrar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 20, 2005 Report Share Posted July 20, 2005 Of course the extracted data are close to unusable, but the already downloaded ISO's are fine... all he has to do is checking the MD5 hashes of them against the md5sum file at the Club FTP/BT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted July 22, 2005 Report Share Posted July 22, 2005 I am like PMPATRICK. I avoid anything that has win in it. :D :D :D Cheerrs. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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