Puppy CD won't boot (Solved: bad CD-RW)

[Ihatewindowsxp]

First I tried a Memorex CD/RW that had been used before. I think it may have been bad.

The 2nd time I used a Verbatium CD-R. It worked just fine.

[aussie]

Ok, thanks to the poster that suggested burning the iso onto a different brand of CD-R.

It was I who suggested the above, I noticed that you used the Verbatim brand CD-R to get you up and running, for me that brand only works on one of my three PC's, the Sony brand CD-R, works on all three machines, so it is really a trial and error situation. Using a fresh CD to burn iso's would always be wise, else one tends to get bogged down as in your case, with a lot well-meaning technical advice.

[Dougal]

I've had better experience with no-name cd-r's than with brand-name ones...

I used to buy packs of 50 cheap cd-r's on-a-stick and had 100% success with them, then once I bought some fancy Phillips cd-r's and quite a few failed...