I tried something and found out with the DIGESTS file in the same directory as the iso, typing: md5sum -c livecd*.DIGESTS will check the md5sum and sha1sum -c livecd*.DIGESTS will do a check on the sha1sum for you. Once I got the gentoo public key I did all three verifications and found out the iso is good. Then I read some install documentation that needs to have the livecd burnt raw. After that I started making coasters. The instructions were for cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc /home/jude/livecd<tab>.iso in the documentation. What that does now with wodim and cdrecord is tao mode not raw. So I tried cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc --raw --eject /home/jude/livecd<tab>.iso and got no better results. At this point I've hit a wall inside a maze with twisty little passages all alike.
