[64studio-devel] Burning the 64studio_1.4.0_amd64.iso

[Daniel James]

Hi Tim,

>> That's right, it's a DVD-R image. It burns fine with Nautilus to DVD-R 
>> but some people find Windows programs (e.g. Nero) identify it as a CD 
>> image. I'm looking into that problem at the moment.

> Ah, that's interesting. I just ran into this one too.

Quentin has provided detailed instructions for Nero which are now item 
17 on http://www.64studio.com/faq_user

> Any suggestions what those of us who don't own DVD recorders should do?

If users have a DVD-ROM but no writer, they could buy a DVD-R version 
from an online Linux store or ask a friend to burn one.

If they don't have a DVD drive of any kind, then a DVD writer is a 
highly recommended upgrade. A bare DVD writer from NEC now costs about 
£18 brand new, and they work great. It's now cheaper to get a writer and 
burn your own DVD than it is to get a roll of Super 8 film bought and 
processed :-)

The biggest drawback to providing DVD images is that people with an old 
laptop will have to get an external USB DVD burner, but even these only 
cost around £40 now. If that's not possible, they could install 1.0 from 
CD and use the 64studio-upgrade script to get 2.0. If they have a lot of 
machines to install or upgrade, they could mirror apt.64studio.com on 
their LAN.

Longer term, we could offer 1GB USB stick as an install method, but not 
all machines can boot from these, especially the older ones.

Cheers!

Daniel