[gentoo-user] Problem burning Gentoo 700 MB LiveCD

[gentoo-user] Problem burning Gentoo 700 MB LiveCD

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear friends:

I have been trying to burn the Gentoo 2006 ISO image to a Memorex 700 MB 
CD using Nero 5.5. I first tried to use other CD burning programs. They 
all gave the same error message: "No media in the drive" or "Drive is 
empty. Please insert CD". Of course, the CD is in the drive. So, when 
Nero says: " No media in the drive. Please insert CD" the drive opens up 
and I close the drive (or replace the CD with a new CD). But it 
repeatedly refuses to proceed. I also tried to uninstall and install my 
Nero 5.0 and then Nero 5.5 to no avail.

And yet, believe it or not, I did successfully burn an ISO image of the 
Gentoo Minimal InstallCD (49 MB). It took some effort (same error 
message) but finally succeeded.

I could install the minimal 50 meg bootable CD. I know it works. But I 
would prefer to install the 697 MB LiveCD. Here are two images with data 
on what's going on:

http://www.websher.net/temp/nero1.jpg
http://www.websher.net/temp/nero2.jpg

I would very much appreciate your help. Is this a hardware or software 
problem and is it fixable? At least, can I fix it enough to burn the 
Gentoo CD?

Thank you again.

Benjamin


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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem burning Gentoo 700 MB LiveCD

[Daniel da Veiga]

On 3/20/06, Benjamin Sher <delphi123@zebra.net> wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> I have been trying to burn the Gentoo 2006 ISO image to a Memorex 700 MB
> CD using Nero 5.5. I first tried to use other CD burning programs. They
> all gave the same error message: "No media in the drive" or "Drive is
> empty. Please insert CD". Of course, the CD is in the drive. So, when
> Nero says: " No media in the drive. Please insert CD" the drive opens up
> and I close the drive (or replace the CD with a new CD). But it
> repeatedly refuses to proceed. I also tried to uninstall and install my
> Nero 5.0 and then Nero 5.5 to no avail.
>
> And yet, believe it or not, I did successfully burn an ISO image of the
> Gentoo Minimal InstallCD (49 MB). It took some effort (same error
> message) but finally succeeded.
>
> I could install the minimal 50 meg bootable CD. I know it works. But I
> would prefer to install the 697 MB LiveCD. Here are two images with data
> on what's going on:
>
> http://www.websher.net/temp/nero1.jpg
> http://www.websher.net/temp/nero2.jpg
>
> I would very much appreciate your help. Is this a hardware or software
> problem and is it fixable? At least, can I fix it enough to burn the
> Gentoo CD?

Its surely and definetly a software problem (since you can burn CDs),
and has probably nothing to do with Nero. Make sure the CDs are blank
and if they're RW, that they are completely erased, and after checking
that DISABLE win autorun for CDs (I don't remeber exactly how to do
that since its been 3 months las time I checked win), after checking
the above, change media (some CDs just don't work), and last, drop
Nero and try XPBurnerPro, its free, simple and works very well. Also,
disable DirectCD if its installed, or any and all programs that MAY
access the drive.

I know this is not related directly with Gentoo, but c'mon, if one
can't burn the install CDs, we loose another (maybe) valuable
addition.

>
> Thank you again.
>
> Benjamin
>
>
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>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem burning Gentoo 700 MB LiveCD

[Heiko Wundram]

Am Montag 20 März 2006 14:35 schrieb Daniel da Veiga:
> <snip perfectly good advice>

You might also want to check whether you have some form of 
Sony-Rootkit^D^D^D^D^D^D^D err... DRM installed. These are known to cause 
problems burning CDs.

--- Heiko.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem burning Gentoo 700 MB LiveCD

[Devon Miller]

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Just taking a shot in the dark here...

Are you sure the CD is actually blank? I know I have made the mistake of
replacing a burned disk on my spindle of blanks. Programs vary in their
ability to handle an already-written writable disk.

On 3/20/06, Benjamin Sher <delphi123@zebra.net> wrote:
>
> Dear friends:
>
> I have been trying to burn the Gentoo 2006 ISO image to a Memorex 700 MB
> CD using Nero 5.5. I first tried to use other CD burning programs. They
> all gave the same error message: "No media in the drive" or "Drive is
> empty. Please insert CD". Of course, the CD is in the drive. So, when
>

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RE: [gentoo-user] Problem burning Gentoo 700 MB LiveCD

[Michael Kintzios]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel da Veiga [mailto:danieldaveiga@gmail.com] 
> Sent: 20 March 2006 13:35
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem burning Gentoo 700 MB LiveCD
> 
> 
> On 3/20/06, Benjamin Sher <delphi123@zebra.net> wrote:
> > Dear friends:
> >
[snip...]
> > And yet, believe it or not, I did successfully burn an ISO 
> image of the
> > Gentoo Minimal InstallCD (49 MB). It took some effort (same error
> > message) but finally succeeded.

Intermittent problems like this could be either due to hardware (faulty
ribbon) and, or buggy firmware.  If this is a recently developed
behaviour I would suggest that you start by replacing the ribbon.  Using
Knoppix (from the hard drive) and K3B will I guess prove the point.

> Its surely and definitely a software problem (since you can burn CDs),
> and has probably nothing to do with Nero.

Nero has brought a couple of updates out (some of them free) and I would
suggest that the OP downloads and installs them for good measure, if he
hasn't done that already.  Additionally, he should update his firmware
using the relevant OEM downloads page.

> the above, change media (some CDs just don't work), and last, drop
> Nero and try XPBurnerPro, its free, simple and works very well.

Cool! http://www.cdburnerxp.se/features.php I'll try it out soon.  Also,
you may want to try http://www.deepburner.com/?r=download (the portable
free version).
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Regards,
Mick


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