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Blank Linux/UNIX DVD

It has come to our attention that, due to an error in DVD duplication, a small percentage of the Linux/UNIX CSD System 2009 Release DVDs are not finalised, and are unreadable to most operating systems. There are two possible courses of action open to you:

  1. If you have a DVD writer and software, it may be possible to finalise the DVD by simply writing any small file to the disk and allow the writing software to finalise the disk. Writing may be done on Windows or Linux. This may not work in all situations, in which case:
  2. Send an email to with your site details.

CSD System Media FAQ

The 2009 release of the CSD System is released on DVD media only. While we do not anticipate this will be a problem for the majority of our users, there may be the occassional case where a DVD-drive is not immediately accessible on the machine that the CSD is to be installed on. In such a case the following steps should allow for installation if a DVD drive is present on another machine (host) that the target computer (target) can access.

Windows

On the host: In Explorer right-click on the DVD drive and select Sharing, then Share this folder as name share.

On the target: In Explorer browse to \\host\share

Alternatively an ISO image of the DVD can be created, then copied to the target computer and mounted via this Microsoft Utility.

UNIX/Linux

On the host:

  • Insert and Mount the DVD (mount /media/cdrom)
  • Export (echo /media/cdrom >> /etc/exports; exportfs -a)

On the target:

  • mkdir /csds
  • mount -t nfs host:media/cdrom /csds

Alternatively an ISO image of the DVD can be created, then copied to the target computer and mounted via the commands:

  • mkdir /csds
  • mount -t iso9660 -oloop,ro /path/to/csds_v530_linux.iso /csds

Mac OSX

All supported systems should come with a DVD drive as standard.


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