I want to reinstall OpenSuSe 11.1, but since I have done already 3 times and I get a lot of problems, I decided to burn a new DVD. I downloaded the .iso file and I did the checksum with ‘md5sum’.
I inserted a DVD-R in the drive. It was instantly detected. I decided to use Brasero. I couldn’t even burn it! Brasero rejected the DVD-R claiming it wasn’t media meant for recording!
I immediately tried Gnome CD/DVD Creator. This one did allow me to burn the image into the DVD. I burnt it at 2.0x even though the max speed was 4.0x (following the pre-installation recommendations found elsewhere on this forum). After the process the DVD was ejected with the message that it had been successful. So I pushed it back into the drive to check if it worked. I got NOTHING…it won’t even mount the DVD. It is as if it didn’t exist.
I did some searching in the forum and I found an issue with permissions pertaining CD/DVD burning. So I changed my user permissions adding: cdrom, disk, audio to the already present dialout, video and users.
I put the DVD back in and still nothing. I rebooted to see if the drive would pick it up and I would start the installation process, but again nothing… I tried it one someone else’s laptop running Windows and it worked!.. what’s going on?
After changing the permissions, Brasero did allow me to burn the image into another DVD-R. Unfortunately after the DVD was ready I once again tried it and the drive didn’t detect it!..
How can this be?..I recently moved to OpenSuSe from Ubuntu. In fact I burnt my OpenSuSe installation DVD on Ubuntu. This is most dissapointing. I don’t want to go back to Ubuntu… I feel OpenSuSe meets my needs better than Ubuntu…but I need to solve this problem and my audio problem.
It appears my drive read the dvd-r very very very slowly, as it is apparently more compatible with dvd+r. I used a dvd+rw and it worked. Though I have to say that brasero won’t burn my dvd+rw (I couldn’t do it in ubuntu either). Only Gnome CD/DVD burner did the job.