Vinux burning problems

[Devon Stewart]

What kind? md5 is common:

md5sum file.iso

That will give you the hash of the contents of the file.

-Devon

On Jul 2, 2012, at 22:50, Glenn <glennervin at cableone.net> wrote:

> There is a checksum at the site, I'm not sure how to apply it.
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Devon Stewart" <devonst17 at gmail.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system forLinux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 11:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Vinux burning problems
> 
> 
> I don't have much experience with this, but I wanted to clarify: 715766 KB 
> is 699 MB, you need to divide KB by 1024 to get MB, not 1000. Is there an 
> md5 sum associated with your download? You might be able to verify whether 
> the iso is bad or your setup.
> 
> -Devon
> 
> On Jul 2, 2012, at 21:28, Glenn <glennervin at cableone.net> wrote:
> 
>> I believe this image is designed for a CD.
>> I just booted to the Vinux I installed onto a USB thumb drive, and it 
>> would
>> not let me burn it to the CD either.
>> Then I put a rewriteable DVD into the drive, and in Linux, I was able to
>> burn it.
>> It read it as 699 MB.
>> It read that even with Over-Burn on, it could not write to the CD.
>> So I believe there is a problem with the Vinux download file.
>> Glenn
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Hart Larry" <chime at hubert-humphrey.com>
>> To: "Glenn" <glennervin at gmail.com>; "Speakup is a screen review system for
>> Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 11:05 PM
>> Subject: Re: Vinux burning problems
>> 
>> 
>> Well, Glen, while I   know little of burning, I would think there would be 
>> a
>> way to directly run an image on a hard-drive.
>> As far as your 2 different file sizes, I seem to remember its something
>> about
>> 1024 verses??        I trust others will be better able to explain
>> Good luck
>> Hart
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