the problem can be solved by appending 300kB worth of zeroes (dd
if=/dev/zero bs=2048 count=150 >> file.iso) to the iso before burning (it
just simulates padding) - if iso's with this padding were distributed,
we'd get rid of the problem for good.
Cheers,
MaZe.
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Thursday 03 March 2005 10:53, William Warren wrote:
> > hrmm. I have burned several sets of CentOS 3 and 4 cd's and
> > DVD's without issue under win2k sp4 using nero 5.x. with a nec
> > burner single layer 4x dvd burner flashed to an 8x dual layer dvd
> > burner.
>
> You got lucky, I believe. But, again, remember that the advice was given in
> 2002, and that there have been several messages in the past couple of days
> about discs failing mediacheck. Given the list traffic, I dug into my
> archives of messages on that list and found the advice (which I have been
> using for some time myself, but I wanted to quote an expert on it. Said
> expert was and is well-known in Red Hat, and was at one time responsible for
> getting good ISO's to the CD pressing company Red Hat used.). The statement
> about Win32 was uttered by him, not by me.
>
