Caldera DR-DOS not finding DVD drive

[GundamSonicZeroX]

For about the last six hours, I have been trying to install Linux. After about 4 bad discs (three distros), I decided to DL ISOs and burn them to DVD/CDs. All three of the discs have Caldera DR-DOS. As I said in the title, Caldera cannot find my DVD RW drive. Wtf should I do? I'll try another drive. Thanx in advance.

 

[drag]

Bad burns may be caused by lots of problems..

For instance if your copying files to a disk this isn't right. You burn the ISO to a disk so when you open the disk up in windows you see a bunch of files and not a iso image.

DMA access may be disabled on the dvd burner or the harddrive or both. If this happens then your burner will experiance a buffer underflow when trying to burn disks.. This is a kiss of death for getting good burns. So you can go into the device-manager and check to see if DMA access is enabled. Also accessing a disk during a burn of messing around with programs may cause enough load on your system to cause a buffer underrun.

DMA is frequently disabled automaticly in Windows due to a crash. It helps preserve the data on your harddrive.

Also many programs suck for burning iso images in windows. The only one I've been ever to get to work with good reliability is 'Nero Burning Rom' which they have aviable for a shareware 30 day trial.

If the image seems bad try it out on a different computer. It could be your drive and trying it out on a different PC may work.

Other then that I don't know anything about DR-DOS, sorry.

 

[Slowlearner]

The only places I see Caldera and DR-DOS are in the hard drive diagnostic utilities from Seagate and Maxtor. If you are trying to install Linux what you need are the iso files for that distro usually around six, if on CDs, or 1 if on dvd. You set your boot order in bios to CD first and then feed the CDs in sequence - I dont see why you need to use the hard drive utilities, or why they should be in the disks you are trying to use - if you can inspect the files on a disk, it isnt an iso. You need to download and burn iso(s). A free cd/dvd burner that I use is deepburner, or get Nero and burn iso - thats the command - Burn ISO. All sites

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Well, I had the LiveCD.isos if that made any difference. Anyway, I'm DLing new isos so, I'll try again when thay're done.

 

[Nothinman]

What the hell are you trying to install that uses DR-DOS?

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
What the hell are you trying to install that uses DR-DOS?

It says DR-DOS whenever I try to boot off the isos. But I'll try different ones.

 

[Nothinman]

It says DR-DOS whenever I try to boot off the isos. But I'll try different ones.

That's my question, what isos? Pretty much every Linux distro I've seen lately either uses GRUB or SYSLINUX and niether of them are dependent on any form of DOS.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

It says DR-DOS whenever I try to boot off the isos. But I'll try different ones.

That's my question, what isos? Pretty much every Linux distro I've seen lately either uses GRUB or SYSLINUX and niether of them are dependent on any form of DOS.

Suse 10.1 and 4Ubuntu 6.02(I think that's it). I'm trying different isos so I don't think I'm any worry. Now, if those new isos I am DLing show the same thing, I'll triple-bump this thread.

 

[pcgeek11]

Suse 10.1 and 4Ubuntu 6.02(I think that's it). I'm trying different isos so I don't think I'm any worry. Now, if those new isos I am DLing show the same thing, I'll triple-bump this thread.

Dude I don't know what you are booting but it isn't Suse 10.1, I just booted off the Suse 10.1 ISO, no Dr DOS there. I use Suse everyday and haven't ever seen Dr DOS...

pcgeek11

 

[Nothinman]

Suse 10.1 and 4Ubuntu 6.02(I think that's it). I'm trying different isos so I don't think I'm any worry. Now, if those new isos I am DLing show the same thing, I'll triple-bump this thread.

As pcgeek11 says, you shouldn't be seeing any references to DR-DOS in either of those systems. Infact the only one I can think of that used to use it was Caldera and they haven't been around for years.