[CentOS] iso burn

[Cliff Pratt]

Yep, it works OK for me, but it may not work for the guy down the road. I
don't have an issue with that. But for most people it just works fine.

Cheers,

Cliff


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Lalatendu Mohanty <lmohanty at redhat.com>wrote:

> On 02/06/2014 03:08 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> > Rejy, for the record, I've downloaded many ISOs and other large files
> using
> > my browser (Chrome) for many years. While years ago it was problematic to
> > use the browser to download large files, it seems to me that that is not
> so
> > these days. Of course if you have a very slow or bad connection, it may
> not
> > work, and this is where download tools come into their own. But I think
> > that for most people, browsers will work OK. The real advantage of the
> > download tools is that a transfer is usually restartable and that is not
> > always possible with a browser download.
>
> Cliff,
>
> I have recently faced checksum issue (i.e. checksum didn't match) when I
> had downloaded the ISO using browser (Firefox). I would say my internet
> connection is fairly good. After I faced issue with browser, "wget"
> worked  fine for me.
>
> -Lala
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Cliff
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Rejy M Cyriac <rcyriac at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 02/06/2014 01:11 PM, dOminic wrote:
> >>> Since you are writing the DVD in Windows OS, I assume you don't have
> any
> >>> Linux boxes !.
> >>> I am not sure what are the checksum verify utilities will work
> perfectly
> >> in
> >>> Windows . However, from a quick internet search, I could find an
> official
> >>> tool from Windows -
> >>> http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=11533 - which
> >>> supports MD5 ans SHA1 . Please match the MD5 of your downloaded CentOS
> >> DVD
> >>> with http://mirror.nbrc.ac.in/centos/6.5/isos/x86_64/md5sum.txt .
> >>>
> >>> Hope that helps .
> >>>
> >> If you can find a Linux box, get to command line
> >>
> >> sha256sum <ISO file>
> >>
> >> compare output with provided hash
> >>
> >> if they match, burn the dvd with the following command
> >>
> >> cdrecord -v -sao <ISO file>
> >>
> >> If the hash values do not match, download the ISO again, preferably
> >> using a download tool. It is better not to use the browser to download
> >> big files like the ISO,
> >>
> >> - rejy (rmc)
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Hal Wigoda <hal.wigoda at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>> I did not check the hash values.
> >>>>
> >>>> How do you do that?
> >>>>
> >>>> Sent from my iPad
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Feb 6, 2014, at 12:09 AM, Darr247 <darr247 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 06 February 2014 @ 03:42 zulu, Hal Wigoda wrote:
> >>>>>> I downloaded the CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
> >>>>>> and CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD12.iso
> >>>>>> and tried to burn them to a DVD but both Windows 7 and IOS
> >>>>>> ( MacBook Pro ) do not recognize these as valid isos.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> What am I doing wrong?
> >>>>> What are their hashes?
> >>>>> Here are some hash values of the files I'm sharing in a bittorrent
> >>>> client:
> >>>>> CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso  (4,467,982,336 bytes)
> >>>>> MD5 - 83221db52687c7b857e65bfe60787838
> >>>>> SHA1 - 32c7695b97f7dcd1f59a77a71f64f2957dddf738
> >>>>> SHA256 -
> >> c796ab378319393f47b29acd8ceaf21e1f48439570657945226db61702a4a2a1
> >>>>> CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso  (1,284,395,008 bytes)
> >>>>> MD5 - 91018b86ca338360bc1212f06ea1719f
> >>>>> SHA1 - 25e5de362ba6c75d793dbeb060b27ba1865cb5df
> >>>>> SHA256 -
> >> afd2fc37e1597c64b3c3464083c0022f436757085d9916350fb8310467123f77
> >>>>> There are currently over 1000 other people sharing the
> >>>>> CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1to2.torrent, too.
> >>>>> So, do the hashes of your files match those?
> >>>>>
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