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Should it be taking hours to burn the disk?

Asked by myshell1

It seems to go pretty quickly, then during this section called checksum, it takes hours and sounds like chicken scratch or a broken record. The numbers go up and then they go down in terms of how much time is left, but the numbers are inaccurate in terms of real time. So should it take hours at 4x speed? This has occurred with two different external burners - the long burning time and the chicken scratch sound. One disk that I let go on for hours until it completed had numerous errors.

Someone said on another website that you need disks over 700mb to run Ubuntu but I checked and they don't seem to make them so I assume that that is not the problem.

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Nandan Vaidya (gotunandan) said : 		#1

Which application are you using to burn the disc(s) ?

Try following this guide
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

make sure you md5 check the iso first

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#3

700Mb is about the largest Cd size and is plenty for Ubuntu. Can we just check that you downloaded the Ubuntu iso from here?
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

Slow burn speed is good and it can take perhaps an hour but the sound effects sound weird. Over an hour is very unusual. I tend to find the cheapest "write once" cds are best for this, preferably ones that can only be bought in packs of 10 or more because they are too cheap to be sold singly. It's almost the opposite fo trying to make a data cd - except that slow-burn speed helps there too.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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myshell1 (myshell1) said : 		#4

brasero, gnomebaker and K3. I've read the BurningIsoHowto page already, and I always do the md5, and they have actually always checked out correctly. K3 took twenty minutes today - I used it just before - what I got was weird pretty multicolored static like lines when I ran the disk and clicked on check disk and run it without installing it. I also got the same lines when I used a disk that was burnt for several hours today using brasero. I also used K3 again to see if the problem was with the disk, it wasn't - got the same lines. They were all from a download that I downloaded today from the official site.

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#5

Hmmm, this is odd. Please can you try a much lighter distro and see if that works? Also it would be good to try a distro from a different family because it could just be an issue with xorg.conf - in which case we might be able to copy it. Please try Wolvix Hunter 1.1.0 - the betas are good but not much smaller so try the Hunter 1.1.0
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=wolvix

SliTaz is even smaller and is also from yet another family
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slitaz

Wolvix (the Hunter version) and Knoppix have excellent hardware detection so they should deal with what's beginning to look like a graphics issue that could be fixable, if we could work out details.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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