[Sussex] iso checksums

[John English]

Hi!

OK - I've been lurking this list long enough and I think it is about time I delurked! I'd sign up for the moot on the 28th only I'm already booked for then. What date is the next one and/or the BCF at Charmandean, and I'll try and come along?

Anyhow, on to the reason I post:


I'm having a problem with an installation and I wondered if someone could help? I'm no Linux wizard but I appreciate the open source logic! I've got an aging Win98 machine that just crashes as soon as you look at it and I thought giving it a decent OS might give it a new spell of life, as it were.


I downloaded ISOs for Fedora 5, which my reading suggested was the most appropriate distro for the likely use of the machine, and when I sha1sum them I get the right checksums. But when I try to install the media check rejects 3 out of 5 of the burnt discs as corrupt. Is there a way of checking if the corruption has occured in the burn or if the problam is in the old machines hardware? Should I try and reburn the discs, proceed with the install regardless or replace the CD drive?

John

PS I've noticed that some mail to this list comes in the form of an .asc and .txt attachment and that while I can read the txt from my PC it is a total pain from webmail (which due to circumstances beyond my control I often have to use). Can those who do so (or anyone else, of course!) please (a) explain why their mail clients are so exclusive and (b) suggest ways of reading the messages if doomed to using Webmail from a M$ machine?
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