[Novalug] Ubuntu upgrade question

[Bonnie Dalzell]

On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:

> One other possibility is that these CDs seem to be VERY full, and perhaps 
> those last tracks are harder to write for some reason.

Interesting idea
>
> Or perhaps forcing a write at a slower speed might help.
>

Did try writing at lower speed. Of course what I finally did was to try to 
upgrade to Lucid via synaptic. Which then completely trashed my system 
partition so I ended up reinstalling Ubuntu 9.04 from a CD I had burned 
last year (not a CDRW) and then using synaptic to upgrade to 9.10. I have 
been afraid to try Lucid again until I can set up a separate harddrive to 
install Lucid on. Of course getting a viable CD for Lucid would also help.

The annoying thing is I had no problem taking my laptop from Karmic to 
Lucid via the synaptic upgrade. It is only the Athlon Desktop that got 
trashed.


> JIM
>
> On 7/24/2010 7:32 PM, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010, John Franklin wrote:
>> 
>>> You might have had a bad batch or a batch that your CD-RW drive didn't 
>>> like.  I've had drives that utterly refused to write to any disks of one 
>>> manufacturer, but would work 100% of the time on others.  The same "bad" 
>>> disks would work fine in other drives.
>> 
>> we tried to make a ubuntu iso both from downloads via my husband's mac 
>> burned on the mac, downloads from my athlon burned on the athlon and iso 
>> downloaded from the athlon and put on a thumb drive and burned on the mac. 
>> then i went out and purchased a new cd/dvd for the athlon.
>> 
>> so we did the science experiment thing.
>> 
>> then i encountered the message at the ubuntu site not to use rwcd's.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> jf
>>> 
>>> On Jul 24, 2010, at 6:15 PM, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
>>> 
>>>> In relation to the failures of writing Ubuntu isos to CDRW disks. The
>>>> disks that failed were previously unused but they were at least a year
>>>> old. I understand that the dyes may not be as stable as one would want
>>>> and until 2 weeks ago we did not have air conditioning so the environment
>>>> may have affected things.
>>>> 
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                        Bonnie Dalzell, MA
mail:5100 Hydes Rd PO Box 60, Hydes,MD,USA 21082-0060|EMAIL:bdalzell at qis.net
Freelance anatomist, vertebrate paleontologist, writer, illustrator, dog
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