I'm having trouble burning a full install iso for Debian stable. I can burn netinstalls fine, but I have yet been able to get a clean burn on a full install. When I am try to install kernel 2.4, I cannot get past 2% in the Detecting hardware phase. It stalls on Loading module 'yenta_socket'. If I try installing kernel 2.6, it gives me a fail to boot error. I am using nero 6 on a Windoze XP Pro machine, burning at 8X (the slowest it will burn). I have tried images downloaded with http, ftp, jigdo and bittorrent, all from the debian site. They all end up with the same results.

At first I thought it was my burner or media, but I just burnt Slackware10.1 with bittorrent, and it installed on the machine just fine. It runs good, but I want to stick with Debian for the time being. It is the distro that I know and love.

If anyone has any help they can provide, it will be greatly appreciated. I have tried everything I know to try, but I am out of ideas. Thanks in advance for any help I can get.

Having completed a download do a md5sum check on the file to ensure that it is complete. File corruptions may be causing the problem as opposed to poor burns.

I have checked the md5sum, and they passed. I had a few that did not, but I never burnt those, I'd just delete them.

I had the same problem burning the net-install and full iso onto cdr. md5sums passed everytime. Strangly the cd's both worked on a different computer. Nothing wrong with the drive or media because I used it just before burning the debian cd's and I've used it after.

They were all burned in slackware 10.1, 2.6.11.11 kernel, k3b.

Try the Debian pure cd. www.debianpure.com It is a single cd that will allow you to install KDE or Gnome along with everything to get you started with a working desktop.

I downloaded the image from www.debianpure.com and checked the md5sum. It passed the checksum, so I burnt it to CD. I booted off the CD, and immediately got an "invalid compressed format (err-1)" error. I downloaded Ubuntu, burnt it to CD, and it is now installing. I am completely stumped as to why I cannot get a decent burn on Debian when I can get them with other distros. This is very disappointing.

it may be related to a hardware problem

you could checkout your memory using this
http://www.memtest.org/

and try to check that all your hardware is connected correctly and is working properly

Definetly not a hardware issue, every other cd burns fine. I installed sarge from a magazine dvd witch worked fine.

I'm starting to question a hardware issue. i was installing Ubuntu from a bought CD and it was installing fine when I got a warning that there was no kernel on the CD. I am investigating this now. Thanks for the memory test link, I will test that as well.