From: "Christopher A. Williams" <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you misunderstood my
> post. The media check that failed was not on the ISOs - it was on the
> CDs that were burned.
>
> The ISOs are good. To be sure, I ran md5sums against them. Got a match.
> I also then FTPd these ISOs directly from my Red Hat box to my laptop
> and used them to burn CDs. The media checks from the CDs I burned here
> (under Win XP)come up perfect.
>
> Next, I switched my CD-RW to be Master on the IDE channel and have my
> DVD-ROM as Slave. Then I burned a CD (Shrike CD 1) at default speed in
> DAO using XCDRoast. The CD boots on my laptop, but media check from the
> Red Hat installer fails the CD. Running md5sums against the CD shows an
> incorrect sum of:
>
> 0ff2aa1ced01632c77cfdb7b37f54803
>
> Doing the same on a CD burned with the same ISO, but under Nero on Win
> XP shows:
>
> 400c7fb292c73b793fb722532abd09ad
>
> Red Hat's sums on RHN (where I downloaded them from) is:
>
> 400c7fb292c73b793fb722532abd09ad
>
> And finally, the md5sum of the ISO that was the source of the
> incorrectly burned CD is:
>
> 400c7fb292c73b793fb722532abd09ad
>
> ...In other words, a perfect match.
>
> So, in conclusion, my FTP download skills should not be called into
> question, but burning CDs under Shrike using IDE drives should be, IMHO.
>
> BTW, I also tried burning from the command line using:
>
> cdrecord -v --eject -dao dev=1,0,0 speed=52
^^^^^^^^
Try with a lower speed setting just for drill.
{^_^}
