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Boot cds have errors

Asked by spartan128

I am attempting to burn the live cd but keep coming up with errors on it. I have run MD5Sum on all four cds I have made and I get a different sum for Wubi then it should be every time. I also ran the checksum on the iso I down loaded and it came up fine but when I check for defects in the first three cds they come up with 3 errors each. I have tried redownloading the ISO file again (cheched with MD5SUM again)and obtained similar results except it won't even read the cd when I try to check for defects. I know that if there is an error on the cds then I'm supposed to try a lower burn speed but I've already lowered to 1x for the last two to no effect. Please help.

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Gord Allott (gordallott) said : 		#1

Your cd burner may be starting to wear out its laser, you might want to consider ordering some free cd's from shipit (http://shipit.ubuntu.com) though they may take a while to arrive.
if you can't wait you can buy a cd from somewhere like http://www.osdisc.com it will close a few dollars (usd) but arrive quicker than shipit.

if you have a current windows install you can also install ubuntu via wubi by just downloading wubi from http://wubi-installer.org/ and installing it on windows - it will download all the files it needs to install ubuntu itself without needing to burn a cd

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spartan128 (spartan128) said : 		#2

If I download wubi would I be able to dual boot or would it just overwrite windows? Sorry it took me so long to reply.

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spartan128 (spartan128) said : 		#3

If I download wubi would I be able to dual boot or would it just overwrite windows? Sorry it took me so long to reply.

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spartan128 (spartan128) said : 		#4

Doh double post, my bad

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Best Gord Allott (gordallott) said : 		#5

if you use wubi you will be dual booting

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spartan128 (spartan128) said : 		#6

Ok thank you I'll try that.

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spartan128 (spartan128) said : 		#7

Thanks Gord Allott, that solved my question.