[NCLUG] burning FC4 CDs

[bof]

hugh at mahon.cwx.net wrote:

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>I had trouble burning CDs from the FC4 ISO images.  I'm using a good 
>drive, thought I had good media, and the ISO images check out 
>according to the SHA1 checksums.  (I got the images as files on a DVD, 
>thanks Sean!)
>
>I even mounted the CDs and the image files and did a recursive diff and 
>got no errors.  I installed one system from such a set of CDs and have 
>had no problems from the system, but still getting the 'FAILED' message 
>bugs me.
>
>I did a Google search and finally found something that seems to be the 
>trick.  When issuing the 'cdrecord' command add the options '-dao 
>-pad', like so:
>
>        cdrecord -dao -pad -v speed=12 dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 image-file
>
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There have been a fair amount of complaints on the FC4 list about 
problems with media-check, and the consensus of opinion is that, if the 
SHA1SUM sums check out, to ignore the media-check and go on with the 
installation.

BOF