On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 06:18 -0400, gb spam wrote: > > THEY ARE BAD DOWNLOADS > > bad downloads can easily be proved with qemu: > > qemu -cdrom the-first-boot-disk.iso -boot d > > if that boots, then it isn't the download. > if that works, you can eliminate it being the cd's you're burning with > > qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d > > nb: replace /dev/cdrom with whatever is appropriate > > if you don't have qemu, then: > > wget http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-0.7.0.tar.gz > tar zxvf qemu-0.7.0.tar.gz > cd qemu-0.7.0 > ./configure > make > make install > > (ironically, these compilation instructions won't work on fc4t[1-3], > you'll have to use the older (supplied) version of gcc) > > I don't want to be rude or anything, but trying to use qemu to verify download integrity might not be the "best" idea, but only because if an ISO has a booboo later in the file then if its a boot-able CD it probably will work fine tell later. :) And you CAN use qemu on FC4T* but you have to specify that you want it to use gcc32 instead of just gcc ( with is gcc 4 ). :) -- kyle