need help, burning DVD during live CD session

VeNT · 4 Mar 2009 at 13:07

I've been trying to get this working all day now, can anyone help me.
I've been trying to boot from a USB key into the ubuntu live thingy so I can write all my files onto a few DVDs before I install linux/vista but my PC just doesn't want to play.

is there any way to eject the live CD and burn DVDs or do I have to get the USB key working?
motherboards a DS4 (forget which one, year and a half old now) and key is generic 4GB.
it's showing as bootable (has a * in fdisk -l) but pc goes straight to the CD.
can I start it booting from the USB from the live CDs menu?

craptakular · 4 Mar 2009 at 13:57

VeNT said:
I've been trying to get this working all day now, can anyone help me.
I've been trying to boot from a USB key into the ubuntu live thingy so I can write all my files onto a few DVDs before I install linux/vista but my PC just doesn't want to play.

is there any way to eject the live CD and burn DVDs or do I have to get the USB key working?
motherboards a DS4 (forget which one, year and a half old now) and key is generic 4GB.
it's showing as bootable (has a * in fdisk -l) but pc goes straight to the CD.
can I start it booting from the USB from the live CDs menu?

erm, if i understand what your asking correctly I use unetbootin to create a bootable LiveUSB stick version of say Ubuntu, and boot of that, saves wasting loads of cd-r's

if u did this, you maybe able to then use the burner. i dunno, just an idea. never done what your asking

JIM_BOB7813 · 4 Mar 2009 at 14:45

If you want to be able to eject the live CD/DVD then I believe you can load the entire live CD into RAM (google it).
The other way would be as you say, to boot form USB stick.

If it's not liking your USB stick, then it's possible to boot your PC to a live CD menu screen, then use that menu (grub) to boot from the image on the usb stick (and remove CD) which is useful if your mobo won't boot directly form USB. Again, I'm not 100% on how you would do this with Ubuntu, but if you google it you'll probably find something.

VeNT · 4 Mar 2009 at 16:18

gah tried that and didn't work, can't find how to boot USB drive from the live CD options either

JIM_BOB7813 · 4 Mar 2009 at 18:31

VeNT said:
can't find how to boot USB drive from the live CD options either

Bit of googleing reveals this http://stmaarten.globat.com/~supergrubdisk.org/w/index.php5/USB_Boot

Some more info here http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/SuperGrubDiskPage.html

Apparently Mandriva move live CD will let you eject it: http://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ro-livecd-that-loads-entirely-to-ram.-242469/
Can also run DSL and load into RAM.

yashiro · 4 Mar 2009 at 20:04

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

VeNT · 4 Mar 2009 at 20:15

in the end I went and borrowed a DVD drive off a friend!

craptakular · 4 Mar 2009 at 21:37

VeNT said:
in the end I went and borrowed a DVD drive off a friend!

did unetbootin not work in the end?

VeNT · 5 Mar 2009 at 09:32

kinda, just said "couldn't find boot image" or some such every time it got to "boot:"

craptakular · 5 Mar 2009 at 12:26

VeNT said:
kinda, just said "couldn't find boot image" or some such every time it got to "boot:"

if your using vista make sure its ran as administrator.

when the unetbootin is launched, tick the "disk image" circle and navigate to the linux iso image. The rest is self explanitory.

It should work, the version i have had most success' recently has been unetbootin-windows-312 I think its on sourceforge.

This week I got linux mint, arch, ubuntu, knoppix, dreamlinux, crunchbang, DSL, pardus and a few others using unetbootin.

One more try for luck?

Also remember u then must boot of usbstick or USB-HDD for it to work.