[Nottingham] CD burning woes

Simon flibble at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 23:44:56 BST 2005


On 9/28/05, Godfrey Nix <godfrey at gnnix.co.uk> wrote:
>
> When I bought the laptop, I immediately wiped disk and installed Fedora
> core 1 (from some CDs burned on my old server (sadly no longer here).
> The other night I downloaded the 4 binary iso images and ran the
> checksum against them - all ok. Burned each one using laptop seemed ok
> so I rebooted machine and installed disk 1 and selected 'test media'
> Each disk failed!


I'm guessing if the checksum was fine (assuming it was a md5sum check) then
the Media Test in Fedora 4 must be broken. Try installing it anyway - it
will fail if the CDs are fubar'd.

Simon
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