On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 20:33, eric z <mrsilverman_
> Thank you all for your help before with ny other problems but Mint will not laod for me i have burned a copy
> with Brazo cd burner.I also have the bios set up but it will not load it to install it does reconize my Ubuntu boot
> disk though.I am running a Compaq prisario with 1 gig ram a 120 hard disk an have a lightscribe burner.If that
> helps any im running Ubuntu 9.10 as well.
eh hemmm... more info Eric...
When you try booting Mint from that CD, does the CD even boot? Does
the system TRY to boot from it but fail? Does it start booting then
crash? what what what?
Also, are you sure the ISO you downloaded and burnt was good, and are
you sure you're CD is good?
If the iso is off by even one bit during download, that could be the
difference between booting and not booting or even being seen by the
system at boot time.
Another thing, what kind of CD? do you have good, quality CDs, or did
you use the cheapest thing available?
In my experience, the cheapo media (CD and DVD both) only work about
60% of the time, while the name brand stuff (I but mostly Sony only
these days) works about 99% of the time.
Heh.. the last time I bought a 100CD spindle of generic CD-Rs, right
at about 45 of them were useless...
So please tell us more about what's going on, and could you PLEASE,
slow down a bit and type things out so that they make a little more
sense? If I understand your post correctly, and I'm not sure I do,
you have a Compaq Presario with 1GB RAM and a 120GB hard disk, and a
lightscribe burner. That Compaq is running Ubuntu 9.10.
You downloaded a Mint ISO and burnt it using Brazo? (you mean
Brasero?) and when you try to boot from the CD you just made,
something happens, but at this point, I'm not sure what that something
is, other than a failure of some sort.
Also, look at the place you downloaded your MINT iso from. in the
directory where the ISO was, there should be a list of MD5SUMS or a
file called MD5SUMS. that's the checksum of the iso.
Check the ISO you downloaded from a terminal like this:
md5sum FILENAME.ISO
where FILENAME.ISO is the filename of the Mint ISO you downloaded.
You'll get a big long string of numbers and letters.
Compare that to the MD5SUM from Mint and if they are different in ANY
way, then your download was bad and you need to do it again.
Now, you can also download that MD5SUM file, put it in the same
directory where your ISO image is, and do this:
md5sum -c MD5SUMS
where MD5SUMS is the file name of the text file that contains all the
MD5SUM entries.
Make sense?
Good Luck!
Jeff
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