Topic: iso image

[sidney]

Hello,

I have a question about the new 5.12 iso image.
When you burn the iso to a cdr does the cd become bootable?

I have burned two cd's of the new iso but neither of them will boot from the cd. I can see data on them and I have downloaded the image twice from the ftp.e-smith.org web site.

Any suggestion?

Thanks

[steve]

If your pc supports cdrom boot they are.

Is the MD5 checksum available ? (i cant recall) if so did you check it.

[Jeff C]

Pretty basic question so you may have already thought of it.  Have you set your PC's BIOS to boot from CD?

-jeff

[Sidney]

I have set the pc to boot from the cdrom first.

I have burned an 5.0 iso from the same burner that that was bootable.

I have tried two other computers to see if the cd would boot. they would not boot from the cd.

I do not know what this means "Is the MD5 checksum available ?"
The software I burn with is HP Adaptec easy cd creator.
To create the cd I will select creat cd from disk image.
That's all I have to do in the past.



Thanks

[Dan Brown]

Although it's been hinted, nobody's directly answered the question so far:  Yes, the 5.1.2 CD is bootable.  At least, the one I burned from the .iso here is.  The MD5 checksum is available for download in the same directory as the ISO, and it would be used to determine whether the file you downloaded had been corrupted.

If you're not able to boot from the CD for some reason, you could always make a boot floppy from the image files on the CD.

[mark]

Sidney,
Yes it is bootable.
I have had the same type of problem in the past and found it to be a bad cd burn. In fact I had the exact same problem with 5.1.2 on the first cd I made and my first instinct was "Sh*& I got a bad image and now I need to download again" but an md5 checksum showed I had a good iso so I just burnt another one and it worked fine on the second burn. Maybe it is a coincidence but I also use adaptec easy cdcreator to do the burn.  (maybe it is a shortcoming with this software because I have had it fail on several different isos: mandrake8.0, snf7.2 and sme5.1.2)

From your second post it sounds like you are not familiar with md5 checksums. If you look in the same directory that you downloaded the iso from you should see an md5 file. It is a checksum that you can use to check to make sure that the iso image you downloaded is not corrupt. You need to get a program to check it. I can't remember exactly where/when I got mine but you can probably find one fairly quick with a search on google. After you have it you would do something like: md5sum -c smeserver-5.1.2.iso.md5sum this will do a checksum on the iso image (it will take a litle bit of time for it to compute and check) and hopefully it will come back and say it is ok. if not then you know that you got a bad download but if it checks out it is probably a bad burn so try again, maybe try a slower speed sometimes that helps.

good luck
-Mark

[Kelvin]

Hi all,

Just my 2 cents worth.

Not all CDR disks and not all CD-ROMs are created equal.

Even with well known brands, you will find that some drives works better with some disk and not others. I believe that some of these 'bad' disks you have will actually work on some other CD-ROM drives, just not the ones you are currently using.

I have been building machines using various brand components for many years and have seen this very often.

Again, just my 2cents.

Kelvin

[Edward]

no problems with burning the CD but curious as to why the disk appears as "SME Server V5.1.2rc2" in Xcdroast?

Just burned a copy as my last task of the day since I am interested to see the changes made. Somewhat concerned that I'm seeing the last release candidate rather than the final code.

[sidney]

Hello Again,

Thanks for all the help. The prolem was my cd writer.