ALL CAPS & -=_

[jeditalian]

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!

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Welcome to the world of the ISO9660 file system.

 

It's meant to be uppercase and 8.3 characters, just adjust the settings to break from it's most restrictive default ones.

 

This is of course only something you'd have to do if ImgBurn is burning files/folders in Build mode.

 

If you have an ISO file (and should therefore be using Write mode) then it's the job of whichever program made the ISO in the first place.

 

Either way, it's not a bug.