Well my gosh! If you fail the mediacheck, doesn't that tell you to download the media again? This time, download in binary mode, not in ASCII. Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 16:57, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > I blew through an entire stack of CDs I burned for a Linux class I'm > teaching. I already 9 installed on my system. Because I was doing atotal > re-install, I burned the first set of CDs on my laptop (Win XP / Nero > Express) as well. > > Since this was for my class, putting the ISOs on disk isn't an option. I > performed the CD media tests in Shrike to test the CDs. All fail. I > decided to try installing anyway - all installs failed with bad media > errors. I have attempted to burn disks with GNOME Toaster and XCDRoast. > Both show no errors in the process. I have used Disk-At-Once, > Track-At-Once, padding, no padding, etc. I have disabled and removed > things said to get in the way. None of it works. > > This has cost me about $25 in wasted CD-ROMs so far. On top of that, > it's embarrassing to teach a Linux class and have to use Win XP because > something you're supposed to be teaching doesn't work. > > If cdrecord is the problem, I sure hope someone fixes this soon... > > Chris Williams > > On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 09:51, Tom Coady wrote: > > > > > Which tool did you use with which parameters to create the CD? > > Which media tests did you perform to verify the disks don't work? > > Do you need to create the CDs or can you just put the isos on the disk and > > select the run from disk option in the install/upgrade. > -- > ==================================== > "If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, > try orderin' someone else's dog around." > --Cowboy Wisdom > > >
