William L. Maltby wrote: > Folks, > > As much as I hate to, I feel I need to post my long story and ask help. > > Shortly after the release announcement, I kicked off rtorrent and > downloaded the CD and DVD images. Since my cable provider does my > "throttling", I disabled throttling and shared for several days, > "returning" several GBs at no objectionable loss I could discern. > > While that was going on, I used cdrecord (don't jump to conclusions > here, read on) via CLI to burn the CDs. This on a fully-up-to-date > CentOS... well here > > uname -a > Linux centos01.homegroannetworking 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL #1 Tue Feb 27 > 09:24:42 EST 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux > > $ lsb_release -a > LSB Version: :core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.0- > ia32:graphics-3.0-noarch > Distributor ID: CentOS > Description: CentOS release 4.4 (Final) > Release: 4.4 > Codename: Final > > CD writer is a generic 52x24x52x that I have used to burn many CDs > before w/o problems. On this unit and the other I'll mention, the writer > is master on IDE channel 2. Neither has an HD on that channel currently. > The other unit has SATA drives and the writer is again on IDE 2 by > itself. > > Disc 1 passes media check and 2 - 6 fail consistently. Checks OK: > > ...CentOS-5.0-Old]$ md5sum -c md5sum.txt > CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-1of6.iso: OK > CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-2of6.iso: OK > CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-3of6.iso: OK > CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-4of6.iso: OK > CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-5of6.iso: OK > CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-6of6.iso: OK > CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-DVD.iso: OK > > IIRC, I also used the sha1 check (can't recall the command ATM) and it > also passed. > At one time I got media check errors on a particular DVD in a new drive sometimes but not others. My solution? Don't do the media check, that way it can't fail:-) If the install works, who cares what media check says? Why not burn boot.iso and do an NFS install? You don't need to burn the rest at all. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list