riddle this: disc2 fails media test. And YES I have checked md5, etc...

From: John Christian (potus98_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/28/04

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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 21:18:57 -0800 (PST)

    Dear Fedora gurus, PLEASE read everything I've tried
    before responding. This is crazy!

    I cannot get the yarrow-i386-disc2 to pass the media
    test. CD's 1 and 3 pass the media test. CD 1 seems
    useable since I can start the install. CD 2 is
    partialy useable since I can continue the install, but
    does not fully work. The failing of CD 2 is
    understandable since it doesn't pass the media test.

    Here's the good part. YES, I have really...

    ...fully downloaded the iso image from 3 different
    mirrors. (636 MB (667,516,928 bytes) according to
    WinXP Home and Cygwin and Solaris)
    ...rechecked the downloads using rsync (no changes).
    ...confirmed the md5 checksum matches the posted
    checksum.
    ...double checked the checksum using the md5sum binary
    on Solaris and Cygwin.
    ...triple checked the posted checksum from 3 different
    sites. (fd23fe32fafe7557f5d1fa1d31100580)
    ...burned at 24x 16x 4x and even 1x.
    ...burned using 2 different iso burn utilities
    ...verified I am burning the CD as an image, not just
    burning the .iso file as a single file.
    ...burned through about 9 CDs from two different sets
    (some from home, some swiped from cube-mate).
    ...placed 3 tiki statues around my laptop (left,
    right, and on the touchpad) while sprinkling magic
    voo-doo dust (powdered sugar) on the screen.

    All of the CD's I've burned before (and since) work
    fine. The other Fedora iso images (discs 1&3) seem
    fine.

    I have a Toshiba Satellite A-10-S169, WinXP Home Ed.
    2002 sp1 (current patch level AFAIK), VMware
    workstation version 4.0.5 build-6030.

    WHAT the fedora is going on here?
    What silly/obvious problem am I missing?
    What else can I try?

    Please help! I'm losing my mind! TIA!
    -john

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