mkisofs -pad ?
This is normally done by default unless you use -nopad
Read http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm
it has good info, (except for a dd typo)
John.
Maciej ?enczykowski wrote:
> 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."
>>
>>
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Swinburne University of Technology
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