[Nottingham] CD burning woes

Michael Simms michael at tuxgames.com
Thu Sep 29 09:02:02 BST 2005


The problem is most likely that they were burned using TAO instead of
DAO - it doesnt affect the install.

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 23:43 +0100, Simon wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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