I just used ImgBurn to burn a cd. First time, i used an old Cd-rw. tried to boot from the cd, got an error i had never seen before.. reset all bios settings to default, still didnt work. re-downloaded the .iso and checked the MD5 sum, burned a new cd on a cd-r this time. Same error.
the .iso i was burning was Puppy linux 4.31, but that isn't important.
what is important is what i found..
Checked the contents of cd because part of the error message said it couldn't find pup-431.sfs, which is like a save-filesystem for puppy linux.
Here's what i found: the file names were all wrong. this might not matter with some software, but when i am duplicating a cd, i make sure that the files on the cd will be identical to those on the original, as well as the disc title.
The computer could not find pup-431.sfs because ImgBurn had renamed it PUP_431.SFS.
maybe the CAPS might not have affected the ability of the disc to function, but when you capitalize - and it becomes _ that is an entirely different character.
if i open up the original .iso, everything is lowercase, and named correctly. so ImgBurn renamed all my files, from boot to BOOT, vmlinuz to VMLINUZ, but most importantly pup-431.sfs to PUP_431.SFS.
this made me get errors: cannot find pup-431.sfs, can't access tty, and job control turned off.
you can google "can't access tty job control turned off " and find that there are plenty of linux users/would-be users, that can't get their linux cds to work because their .iso to cd-burning utility renamed the contents of their discs, screwing them up.
I'm not saying that all of them used ImgBurn.. I'm just lucky i caught it early, before i burned away my supply of cds wondering what went wrong.
This seems like a problem that could be easily solved. something got over-complicated in the process here..
so i did what ImgBurn basically does.. opened the .iso with 7zip or something, and burned the contents to a disc without ImgBurn. and it worked.
-Quality Control
fix that one issue, save users from burning coasters, PROFIT!
