Re: ISO Image Problem

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Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:22:13 +0800
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

Rafiq_Maniar@Dell.com wrote:

> I had the exact same problem, using two different CD burners on the same
> machine.
>
> Eventually, I tried just burning the ISO's on my older laptop, and they
> worked just fine. Having
> wasted so much time trying to get working CDs originally, I never
> investigated the root cause of
> them not being burned correctly on the first machine, so haven't got a
> solution unfortunately.
>
> Maybe just try burning from a different computer.
>
> Rafiq
>
>
> I've been through this five times now and on two of the tries, I've done
> just that and had the install fail. However, this last batch of ISOs
> came
> from a site reported in this list as being a reliable mirror, so I'm
> going
> to try skipping the mediacheck again and see what happens. If that
> fails,
> I'll get Roxio out, turn on the write verification so I *KNOW* my CD is
> properly burned.
>
> If that fails, then I'll try using a different CDROM drive in my target
> machine. I seriously doubt that's the problem because I had Windows
> 2000
> Enterprise Server on this box and had no problems with the drive at all.
> But, one never knows, so I swap it out and see....
>
> Try skipping mediacheck, just for grins and giggles. There is a strong
> possibility it will successfully complete the install anyway.
>
>>M.Hockings:
>>
>>I would make sure that you are burning the CD at or below it's max
>>burn speed. Some of the cheap CD's have a low burn speed and may or
>>may not give ideal results if burnt at the writer's max speed.
>
>
> Tried that, no go.
>
>
>>Dale Sykora:
>>
>>Other than slowing down the write speed (as already suggested), are
>>you sure you are "creating cd from image" rather than just "copying
>>*.iso to cd".
>>
>>John Aldrich:
>>
>>One thing... Are you *sure* you're burning it correctly? I know in the
>
> past
>
>>I've accidentally burned the image as a single file to the CD when I
>
> wasn't
>
>>paying attention to what I was doing. Make sure you're using the burn
>>an image to a CD option.
>
>
> Yes. I'm booting from disk 1 and running "linux mediacheck" at the
> boot: prompt. I've also tried starting the install process which takes
> you
> into the mediacheck anyway.

Also, this has worked for me in the past - try booting the install CD
with the cdnodma kernel option. I had to do this when I was using a
CD-ROM drive to install which obviously wasn't 100% ATAPI DMA compliant
or simply dodgy. The install will go slower but if it works who cares?

Regards,
Ed.

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