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Aleksandar Lazic wrote:
On Don 23.11.2006 07:41, John Summerfield wrote:
Aleksandar Lazic wrote:
Ok, but if the Hardware in the target maschine can't read the medium
but the on the burned maschine was all ok?!
and if the hardware on the target machine can read is sometimes and
fail sometimes? This is what happened to me.
Ok, thats sounds bad :-/
What if mediacheck fails, but you can in fact read all the files you
need? This is perfectly possible, and I've seen this too.
Nothing is perfect. The only test that matters is when you're reading
stuff to install it.
But isn't this to late!
If you burn-then-verify and that passes, probably the media are okay,
and, if there's a problem, there's a good chance the drive reading is
flaky (but maybe not altogether broken).
burn-then-verify checks every disk you burn, at the time you burn them,
not when your mate's taken them home (maybe an hour or more away).
mediacheck only tests install media, and then only those created with
the (underdocumented) official tools. If I add a ks file to a disk image
and adjust the isolinux configuration using the tools I understand best,
mediacheck will be utterly meaningless.
As for me, I prefer to install from the network. With broadband,
directly off the Internet is probably quicker than downloading media,
burning media etc, and if you're doing multiple installs then a local
cache (Squid or Apache) makes it as good as a local LAN.
Ok.
Regards
Aleks
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