Garr! Linux wont' boot!

Garr! Linux wont' boot!

So, after doing some searching, I decided to get Santa Fe Linux as a backup OS in case Windows crashed (to use as a temporary OS, or to conduct repairs if need be). So, I downloaded it and burned it to a CD, but it's not booting off of the CD! Why?!

(I have above average experience with comps, so I obviously set the boot order to CD first).

Edit: Tried it on two other comps, and it still didn't work. Grr...

 

Perhaps the CD didn't burn properly?

I've had that happen twice now after downloading iso's for live CD's.

edit: why Santa Fe? Just curious.

 

Didn't want to have to adapt to a new GUI, and SF is very similar to the Windows GUI. I don't want to reburn unless I know it's the problem, since I'm running out of CD's. Other ideas?

 

ho-ho dan why so glum, chum?

just kidding

I had that exact same problem, but I havent gotten around to reburning it...and now that youre talking about it I guess I coudl try to reburn it now, except I wont do it at 40x and just go down to 8x.

If I do get this done ill get back here and tell you, and reburning then will probably be the reason for your problems.

 

never heard of santa fe linux before. make sure that you burn it at 8x or slower or else the iso may not burn correctly.

if you want a linux distro thats similar to the winxp gui, i would recommend xandros: http://www.xandros.com/

only thing is that it's a commercial distro so you have to pay but it's still a lot cheaper than winxp.

 

Ok, I downloaded an ISO file, but it appeared as a Zip file, so I didn't realize it (and thus burned the contents of the ISO file instead of the ISO file itself). Okie dokie, now it works.

But I can't access anything from my hard drive, so it's useless as a recovery disk. Nor could I access the internet. Is that supposed to happen? :shocked:

Edit: Meh, I don't want to have to pay for it. As I mentioned, it'll be a Live CD that'll be used as a backup in case Windows fails. I'll then use the Live CD as a temporary OS to recover files and use my computer until I have time to reformat.

 

wait a minute that sounds pretty similar to what i was doing/thinking at 3am when I was trying to go through with this.

go through those steps again, slower, and carefully.

pretty please?

 

Well, I used Alcohol to burn it as an ISO onto a CD, but if you don't have it, try burning the whole zip file to the CD (instead of unzipping it and burning the files individually).

 

what i basically remember doing was opening up nero, then going to the prompt of burning a cd with info or documents (or something like that).

i just selected the entire zip file i downloaded, and then burned that. i didnt open it and move individual files, just grabbed the entire thing.

where could i get Alcohol and would that solve my problem, or did you just burn it with a slowerspeed, because i thought that could've been the issue too.

 

Try that.

10chars

 

is alcohol 52 kind of like daemon tools?

and alcohol 120 like any dvd/cd burning software?

 

I don't know. I use 120. Burning software for that one (also creates image files and such).

 

so is there an actual difference from using something like nero, in the end they all burn the zip file fine, right?

 

I don't know. I didn't use Nero. But I figured since Alcohol realized it as an ISO file (when it looked like a zip file), it was probably the best program to use to ensure a successful burn. But now I can't access my Windows files or access the internet with it, so my CD is essentially useless. -_-'

 

t.t

What browser does it have? If it looks a lot like XP can you try and see if you just need to start up the connection? Or just turn off/on your modem/router perhaps

 

I'm at a university, so I have no control over the modem or router. o_o

 

Aw

Um, restart your computer? :grin:

Maybe if you ask someone if they have Linux if they had the same problem. Or you can try another distro and see if that will be fine..

but first, it sounds like you need to buy more blank cd's :sad2:

 

No one here has Linux. And I'm in college, so buying blank CD's just to make a couple more Linux CD's that might not even work = waste of money. =/

 

ah, I see.

I still have 2 cd's left over, so Ill think about redoing this...

but thanks for the help.

 

No prob. You should partake in our political threads.