CD/DVD Burners.

[Alfred]

Hi: 

I got the DVD set from Flip-side Technology. They run the
"www.thelinuxstore.ca here in Ontario. Shanty Bay Ontario. I've bought
other distributions from them, but could not copy them to a CD, or DVD.
Only CD's and DVD, that were downloaded from a high-speed connection,
were able to be copied. They have every distribution and then some, and
all kinds of Linux Equipment, that runs Linux. Usually it is up to date
too. 

I'm not sure that they use Copy Protection, it just looks that way. Each
time there are un handled errors that cause the Copying program to
crash. It does not matter what program it is that is doing the Copying.
Yet at other times other CD's and DVD's not from Flip-side Technology,
can be copied. All the repositories are on these DVD's, so there is a
very minimal need to download anything. We got Dial up here, with Hills
all around, and about 1 1/2 mile to the nearest T lines. No Hotspots, no
nearby towers equipped with the lower frequency Modem Equipment. You put
a CD or DVD in it reads it, and you give it a name, for all 7 DVD's.
Then when you are in Synaptic, you pick a program to install, and
Synaptic picks the dependencies. Then it tells you which disk to put in,
and the next disk etc. You can do many installs using these DVD sets, so
I don't think they are breaking any rules, in that you can use them to
make many installs. You just can't copy the actual DVD set. If you want
another DVD set, then you got to buy another set. I guess it prevents
other people from using their "works" to take business away from them.
All the Programs on these DVD sets can't be Authenticated, but
everything works OK when I use them to install systems. Either my Cables
are Flaky or the above? 

The problem with Synaptic cleared up on it's own, when 7.10 got an
upgrade of one item, all 577 Hardy Items disappeared, from the Update
Icon. No having to go into a directory and clear anything. It seems
everything is back to normal, from the failed upgrade to 8.04, over-top
of 7.10.

Alfred!

Alfred!
-----Original Message-----
From: mcr at simtone.net
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To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: CD/DVD Burners.
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:30:59 -0400

>>>>> "Alfred" == Alfred  <alfred.s at nexicom.net> writes:
    Alfred> I played with this, changed the cables, and it still didn't
    Alfred> work. Then I made a copy of an older Ubuntu install cd, that
    Alfred> worked just fine. So the 

  I was thinking that writing DVDs occurs at a faster data rate than
writing a CD, so it could still be bad cables, controller, etc.
  But, I am curious who you got the DVD set from?

  What kind of protection do you think they used? I'm not aware of any
that you can add to an iso image afterwards.  If they did do that, then
they would be violating GPL.

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