Every iso fails?
 

ive downloaded debian twice now and after every burn i try to boot and it fails on one fila or anothother, ive even tried burning multiple copies of the same iso and get incosistencies... the thing i dont understand is that everything else i download works fine, ive tried lots of iso's and even xbox iso's work a treat, but not debian...

any ideas??

Where are you downloading from?
Do you use the md5 checksum to verify your downloads?

yeah checksum comes out ok??

downloading from bittorrent, going to try again... if it fails again im gonna go buy a copy i think

Are you trying to use the full install or net install? I have had this happen with the full install from time to time, but never the net install. Try changing to a different mirror, that has helped me in the past.

Good Luck.

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i have a wireless only lan so no net install available...


so yeah full install, damn theyre so big, wish it wasnt 8gb every time im using up my bandwisth allowance fast!

This might be a wimpy way out but you can get the full 4 DVD set (source and binary) for about Stg10, plus or minus a bit for postage. I don't know if I'm allowed to post the url of the UK supplier I used but I asked a question about postage on Wednesday, got a reply on Thursday, placed the order and the discs were in my letterbox on Monday morning. Overseas shipment here, UK to Malta.

I probably could not have downloaded that lot in 4 days anyway!

Unless you have specifically verified that the cd-rom drive on your to-be-debian computer works, the I'd say it is faulty. If you've check md5sums and verified every Debian CD against the image, then it should work.

Some cd-rom drives are picky about their media - one cd-rw may work, another may not. Even some cd-r may be troublesome.

However it is strange that other isos have worked for him - unless the CDRW has developed a fault since then.

A possible solution is, if the CMOS setup permits it, to turn down the PIO mode of the cdrom. I have found that some older drives are unhappy with "home burned" CDs at their default PIO settings but will work Ok when you drop this from PIO mode 4 to 3 or even 2.