iso problems

[Guest richard]

I'm having problems burning the iso to disk. Everytime I try and do it in Roxio it tells me its an invalid format I have also tried copying it on my mac but have had the same problem.

[petectid]

Is the image good, did it come with an Md5 checksum if so run it to see if its okay.

[Guest richard]

There is no Md5 checksum in the zip files that people are hosting.

[OutToLunch]

The MD5 checksum for the file extracted from my copy of the zip file is :

 

662991b1936897d1332e43824e40dc9e *MSLNM.iso

 

HTH

[Guest richard]

I'm just in the process of downloading again.

[Guest richard]

The checksum matches but when I try and burn it I keep getting to that it is not a valid disc image.

[OutToLunch]

Have you checked you can actually burn ISO files with your version of Roxio and not just whatever their proprietary image format is?

 

Try BurnAtOnce - freeware simple ISO burner, works happily here.

 

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/cdr_software/cdr_applications/burnatonce.cfm

[petectid]

Download a trial version of Nero this will burn ISO images, do not know much about Roxio software and ISO images.

[OutToLunch]

Hmm, no edit button?

 

Hold fire on BurnAtOnce - sure I burned my copy using it but just burned an extra to make sure and it doesn't seem too happy. I'll have to check it wasn't just an iffy burn.

[Guest richard]

I've just tried to do it with K3b on my laptop and I still get the same message.

[CyberNerd]

IIRC I had the same problem with K3B - I put it down to microsofts inability to implement open standards such as iso9660. Along with the other comments about LNM it managed to put me off trying any further

[ico2]

In linux (or unix) (if you have it, i assume you do if running k3b), use the file utility on it (open a terminal and run "file nameofiso.iso") paste the output here

[Guest richard]

rshortland@Netadmin:~$ file MSLNM.iso
MSLNM.iso: data

[ico2]

yeah, that isnt an iso file.

just out of curiosity, run "strings -n 5 nameofiso.iso|head"

[Guest richard]

rshortland@Netadmin:~$ strings -n 5 MSLNM.iso|head
CD001
                               LNM 2005
VRMWPE_EN                                                 MICROSOFT CORPORATION                  MICROSOFT CORPORATION, ONE MICROSOFT WAY, REDMOND WA 98052, (425 ) 882-8080                                                      CDIMAGE 2.52 (03 /09/2004 TM)                                                                 2005091219364700
2005091219364700
0000000000000000
0000000000000000
ULTRAISO
7.5.5.1012
                                                         /Documentation
CD001
rshortland@Netadmin:~$

[ico2]

well, its a cd image, even if nothing else sees it as one, buring it directly do a cd with cdrecord in linux (cdrecord dev=/dev/nameofcdwriter MSLNM.iso), problem seems to be non-standard iso (evil microsoft), hopefully windows can read it when on a cd even if nothing else notices it is an iso due to it being a wierd format.

[OutToLunch]

IsoBuster seems to load the image OK - from within IsoBuster I did a CD Image extraction to bin/cue, then burned that. Seems to work ok - actually burnable and readable after the burn...

[OutToLunch]

hopefully windows can read it when on a cd even if nothing else notices it is an iso due to it being a wierd format.

 

The cygwin based Windows ports of cdrecord burn it ok but create an unreadable CD. Something very odd with that ISO!

[ico2]

blame microsoft!!!

maybe either isobuster will convert it or linux will mount it with "mount MSLNM.iso /somerandomdirectory/ -o loop -t iso9660

 

if you specify the type as iso9660, you may have more luck than without, perhaps it is readable but not detectable as an iso. if you can do that then mkisofs /somerandomdirectory/ -o newiso.iso

now burn the iso and it might work.

 

 

if all else fails run:

while(true); do echo "your software sucks" | mail [email protected]; done

[Geoff]

root@titan:/var/www/vle.carrhill.lancs.sch.uk/htdocs/temp# ls
MSLNM.iso  MSLNM.zip
[email]root@titan:/var/www/vle.carrhill.lancs.sch.uk[/email]/htdocs/temp# file MSLNM.*
MSLNM.iso: data
MSLNM.zip: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract
[email]root@titan:/var/www/vle.carrhill.lancs.sch.uk[/email]/htdocs/temp# md5sum *
662991b1936897d1332e43824e40dc9e  MSLNM.iso
f556484b16f683367c7d1abee155c3e6  MSLNM.zip

 

??

[ico2]

Geoff: yeah, file doesnt recognise it as an iso (probably the fault of m$)

Dont think it is a bad download or anything, most zip utilities will fail to extract all together if the zip file is damaged at all.

[Geoff]

yes. it extracts fine here.

[Guest richard]

Just tried to mount the iso and got the following:

 

rshortland@Netadmin:~$ sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 MSLNM.iso /home/rshortland/iso
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
      missing codepage or other error
      In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
      dmesg | tail  or so

rshortland@Netadmin:~$ dmesg | tail
[4294728.899000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[4294728.899000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[4294728.899000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.7
[4298154.229000] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
[4300237.129000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[4300247.490000] hub 3-0:1.0: over-current change on port 1
[4300247.630000] hub 4-0:1.0: over-current change on port 5
[4305012.054000] loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
[4305407.844000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[4305436.142000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.

[Geoff]

Just burn it with dd.

[ico2]

hmm, blame m$, try IsoBuster then, havent used or heard of before, but hopefully it will help, then send angry email to the relevant address.