64 Bit PCLinuxOS KDE version?

[Refugee]

Well you are not going to be confused any more. After the ISO9660 failed with a message that said it had failed to erase something that did not exist as the DVD was out of a new cake pack i had just opened i then assumed it was due to the fact that the Pclos 2009 box only has 500MB of RAM and on the second go i clicked copy as an ordinary data file so it was non boot. I then took it to the box with the new MB and an old install of Pclos 2010 on the HD that booted instantly the new MB had been installed only to find that it also showed the same error message when i took a second DVD from the cake pack with the downloaded file saved to that HD. Since it had failed to delete something that did not exist i put the first disk i used for the  transfer in and tried again and it produced a fully working ISO9660 image that i was able to use to format the HD i am now doing the kernel trials on at the faster data transfer that DVD offers. For some reason it was just insistent there must be something on the DVD for it to delete before it can make an ISO9660 image. I tried it again just before this reply with another DVD that has never been taken out of the pack with the same result. It pre formated it and all the other thing it should have done before the failure message and then i spotted that the media indicator had changed to no disk in the drive. It just looks like K3d will not make an ISO9660 image on a DVD+RW disk from the pack i have that has not been used for something else first.

[Neal ManBear]

Refugee,   
ISO9660 is an international standard. It is used in the creation of operating system media.     

..... copied the file as downloaded as a FAT32 to the same DVD without issue.

     
A FAT32? Not possible. FAT32 is a filesystem. It is an old windows filesystem. Hard disk drives are formatted to add a filesystem.     

[Old-Polack]

Well you are not going to be confused any more. After the ISO9660 failed with a message that said it had failed to erase something that did not exist as the DVD was out of a new cake pack i had just opened i then assumed it was due to the fact that the Pclos 2009 box only has 500MB of RAM and on the second go i clicked copy as an ordinary data file so it was non boot. I then took it to the box with the new MB and an old install of Pclos 2010 on the HD that booted instantly the new MB had been installed only to find that it also showed the same error message when i took a second DVD from the cake pack with the downloaded file saved to that HD. Since it had failed to delete something that did not exist i put the first disk i used for the  transfer in and tried again and it produced a fully working ISO9660 image that i was able to use to format the HD i am now doing the kernel trials on at the faster data transfer that DVD offers. For some reason it was just insistent there must be something on the DVD for it to delete before it can make an ISO9660 image. I tried it again just before this reply with another DVD that has never been taken out of the pack with the same result. It pre formated it and all the other thing it should have done before the failure message and then i spotted that the media indicator had changed to no disk in the drive. It just looks like K3d will not make an ISO9660 image on a DVD+RW disk from the pack i have that has not been used for something else first.

Wrong again!

A second helping of gibberish is just more gibberish, piled higher and deeper. Like your previous replies, it still makes no sense.    

[Hondo]

Why would you use a rewritable DVD when DVD+R is so cheap?

[demilord]

I don't know what you're on about concerning the DVD+RW issue. I have about 400 of these, Memorex brand mostly, and have never had any problems burning them with K3B. You're not supposed to erase them, just re-burn them. Erasing DVD+RW media can damage it beyond recovery, and is not advised. DVD-RW needs to be erased between burns.

Thanks Polack I never knew that!!!

[Old-Polack]

Why would you use a rewritable DVD when DVD+R is so cheap?

Because DVD+RW is cheaper yet, when you consider each is reusable ~1000 times.

[Refugee]

I will just have to repeat the test with Pclos 2012 and if it works then the older version of K3b must have had an issue with that brand of DVD.
It is not a problem as i know the workaround.

[coco]

Install PCLinuxOS from running liveusb (copy image to usb, SD card) is easy and cheap.

[Archie]

Install PCLinuxOS from running liveusb (copy image to usb, SD card) is easy and cheap.

This is also my preferred way for both new releases and remasters. I ain't buying another CD/DVD-R. Some time ago, I found out that I couldn't access A LOT of my old DVD archives. I was planning on recycling some files... NADA ... just potentially new coasters. I still have quite a lot more to check but can't be bothered now.

Our hard disks - fixed or removable - and whatsoever media are not guaranteed storage.

Anyway, when I boot up other than the HD, it's either from a USB or from a removable HD; no CD/DVD here. k3B has become unnecessary for me.

[coco]

I do not remember the last time I buy a CD or DVD, do not use, SD cards, pendrives and hard drives many.