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."
>
>
