mkisofs-2.0-11.AS21.1 (CentOS-2) &
mkisofs-2.01.0.a32-0.EL3.1 (CentOS-3) both have:
To avoid problems with I/O error on the last file
on the filesystem, the -pad option has been made
the default.
Perhaps this change is why the ISO problem has only become a major issue
now.
Were the CentOS-4 ISOs created with -pad? If not, would it be worth
reissuing them? (with some missing packages added too?).
John.
Maciej ?enczykowski wrote:
> I beg to differ:
>
> man cdrecord (FC2):
> -nopad Do not pad the following tracks - the default.
>
>
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, John Newbigin wrote:
>
>
>>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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