I'm pretty sure we should just prepad the ISO's with 300KB worth of zeroes before calcing their md5sums and distributing them, I'll check whether this works (what's a CD worth? 30cents?) in a moment and report back. If this only passes mediacheck (all reports are it should) then this will eliminate _all_ non-badburner and bad-media related burn errors (some 95% I'd say) and save a lot of trouble for a lot of people (ie I wasted a CD and 10 minutes burning the 4 centos4 cd's). Cheers, MaZe. On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Collins Richey wrote: > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:27:02 -0500, Lamar Owen <lowen@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This is my last post on the subject since people seem to be more interested in > > splitting hairs than in helping people get a good burn on their hardware. > > And whether their hardware is broken or not is irrelevant; there is a > > recommendation that works for the vast majority of people that have the > > problem, and I simply looked through my archives to try to help people get a > > good burn. If I had known that people were going to nitpick my post I > > would not have bothered looking through my archives, nor would I have > > posted it. > > -- > > Please don't consider my questions on the subject "nitpicking." I'm > just enterested in learning "the rest of the story," most especially > since it runs counter to several years of my own experience. > > Thank you for replying at length. Helping people to understand "why" > is somethimes just as important as understanding "how" or "what." > >