William L. Maltby wrote:
Folks,
As much as I hate to, I feel I need to post my long story and ask help.
Shortly after the release announcement, I kicked off rtorrent and
downloaded the CD and DVD images. Since my cable provider does my
"throttling", I disabled throttling and shared for several days,
"returning" several GBs at no objectionable loss I could discern.
While that was going on, I used cdrecord (don't jump to conclusions
here, read on) via CLI to burn the CDs. This on a fully-up-to-date
CentOS... well here
uname -a
Linux centos01.homegroannetworking 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL #1 Tue Feb 27
09:24:42 EST 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version: :core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-
ia32:graphics-3.0-noarch
Distributor ID: CentOS
Description: CentOS release 4.4 (Final)
Release: 4.4
Codename: Final
CD writer is a generic 52x24x52x that I have used to burn many CDs
before w/o problems. On this unit and the other I'll mention, the writer
is master on IDE channel 2. Neither has an HD on that channel currently.
The other unit has SATA drives and the writer is again on IDE 2 by
itself.
Disc 1 passes media check and 2 - 6 fail consistently. Checks OK:
...CentOS-5.0-Old]$ md5sum -c md5sum.txt
CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-1of6.iso: OK
CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-2of6.iso: OK
CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-3of6.iso: OK
CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-4of6.iso: OK
CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-5of6.iso: OK
CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-6of6.iso: OK
CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-DVD.iso: OK
IIRC, I also used the sha1 check (can't recall the command ATM) and it
also passed.
At one time I got media check errors on a particular DVD in a new drive
sometimes but not others.
My solution? Don't do the media check, that way it can't fail:-) If the
install works, who cares what media check says?
Why not burn boot.iso and do an NFS install? You don't need to burn the
rest at all.
--
Cheers
John
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