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I used XFburn to burn a prepared compilation of the Debian .iso at the speed of 8. I didn't use MAX speed. When the burn was complete the drive door opened like it should have.
I went into the BIOS twice to ensure that the machine is set to boot to the CDROM drive first and it is.
When my desktop boots I see the black screen with the white flashing cursor and hear the DVD run in the drive and it looks like it's about to boot into the Live DVD.
It fails to boot the DVD and boots into Slackware which is my first os on a 500 GB HDD that is /dev/sda1.
Slackware see's the Debian DVD and so does Linux Mint which is on the second os on my 1TB HDD.
I tried shutting down from Mint and restarting and the DVD does the same.
The DVD+R was brand new from the stack and
I turned the DVD over and looked at it under good light and I didn't see any scratches.
I went back to the Debian page where the DVD .iso are and checked again.
I think I downloaded DVD 3. It's a set of 3 DVD .iso's. jeeeeeeeesz!
Can I just use the Debian 8 CD that I have that was Debian 8 (Testing) before it became stable to install?
you may want to try it like I do it Debian has been a pain in the back side for me also so many times I ran it live from grub.cfg
so I could set modesetting for my graphics.
Code:
}
menuentry "debian 8.1.0-" {
set isofile="/mntiso/debian-8.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso"
# or set isofile="/<username>/Downloads/debian-8.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso"
# if you use a single partition for your $HOME
loopback loop (hd0,1)$isofile
linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz boot=live <-- Change name the folder holds the correct kernel iso-scan/filename=$isofile noprompt noeject nouveau.modeset=0
initrd (loop)/live/initrd.img
}
}
I find this odd this is not a live disk or did I miss read if I did sorry. I always try the live cd first. 9 out of ten times they screw up installing.
yes I have a folder on one of my drives location /mntiso .
good luck hope you have better luck then I ever had with debian burns.
Last edited by Drakeo; 06-28-2015 at 11:06 AM.
Reason: spelling
You only need the first DVD -- the rest are for people who don't have an internet connection.
EDIT: To clarify, the first DVD is bootable but the others are not (they just contain the packages in the repository).
You could use the old DVD but it will be an under-developed version of the installer and will require so many updates that you may as well just download the netinstall ISO image for jessie (Debian Stable, version 8.1) and use that instead...
you may want to try it like I do it Debian has been a pain in the back side for me also so many times I ran it live from grub.cfg
so I could set modesetting for my graphics.
Code:
}
menuentry "debian 8.1.0-" {
set isofile="/mntiso/debian-8.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso"
# or set isofile="/<username>/Downloads/debian-8.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso"
# if you use a single partition for your $HOME
loopback loop (hd0,1)$isofile
linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz boot=live <-- Change name the folder holds the correct kernel iso-scan/filename=$isofile noprompt noeject nouveau.modeset=0
initrd (loop)/live/initrd.img
}
}
I find this odd this is not a live disk or did I miss read if I did sorry. I always try the live cd first. 9 out of ten times they screw up installing.
yes I have a folder on one of my drives location /mntiso .
good luck hope you have better luck then I ever had with debian burns.
Thanks Drakeo:-
I'll try your method should the new burn of the DVD-1.iso gives me a problem.
You only need the first DVD -- the rest are for people who don't have an internet connection.
EDIT: To clarify, the first DVD is bootable but the others are not (they just contain the packages in the repository).
You could use the old DVD but it will be an under-developed version of the installer and will require so many updates that you may as well just download the netinstall ISO image for jessie (Debian Stable, version 8.1) and use that instead...
They sure don't make it clear on the page to download Debian that you need the first DVD .iso- (unless I missed something)
Looking at that page it seems/looks as though you need to download all 3 DVD .iso's.
I'm not happy that I just made a coaster.
I'll download the first DVD .iso this time, thanks for the clarification.-
FWIW debians packages are updated so often that it's better to get a regular cd or netinstall because after downloading the dvd the system will ask if you want to update anyway. The only difference is the dvd will have all of the DE's available.
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