FC4 CD burning

lsropia · 07-19-2005, 06:05 AM

Hello,

FC4 is out for a long time now. Believe me, when I came to know of it, I started trying to get the CD or DVD, but couldnot. Then, I tried to dowload and couldnot succeed due to many reasons. I subscribed to broadband services, and by this (wget -c ...) marvellous command was able to download the required files, afterall.

I Checked the sha1sum test for the correctness of all the files. Enthusiastic, I immediately put them for burning, in the hope that k3b would recognise iso image writing by itself. Alas, it didnot, and 4 CD's wasted.. I read about k3b on the net etc. Finally, I came about the way to write iso images and did that. But, all the 4 CD's failed media check and the CD's wasted again (I hope friends of green earth are not reading this). I brought the another CD drive, but the media check fails, all the same. Installing on CDRW too fails this test.

Downloaded the latest k3b, but gives the same observation. xcdroast for some reasons is not working, yes, it is asking for SCSI emulation. Now where is the problem. I know, before answering, we need to know:

It is-
FC3 on compaq nx7010.
Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R2512
k3b 0.11.24 using kde 3.3.0-5

Alex

GL1800 · 07-19-2005, 06:28 AM

I had this same issue with both FC3 and FC4. I read some posts saying that it could be safely ignored. Sure enough, both installs went fine.

equinox · 07-19-2005, 07:32 AM

Why not try burning the iso's from the commandline using cdrecord?

reddazz · 07-19-2005, 07:46 AM

My Fedora media check almost always fails, but the installation proceeds smoothly, so I wouldn't worry about it. It seems like the media check has been buggy for a long time.

mjenkins · 07-19-2005, 08:46 AM

i found you must be root to run xcdroast anymore...

Quote:

Originally posted by lsropia
Hello,

FC4 is out for a long time now. Believe me, when I came to know of it, I started trying to get the CD or DVD, but couldnot. Then, I tried to dowload and couldnot succeed due to many reasons. I subscribed to broadband services, and by this (wget -c ...) marvellous command was able to download the required files, afterall.

I Checked the sha1sum test for the correctness of all the files. Enthusiastic, I immediately put them for burning, in the hope that k3b would recognise iso image writing by itself. Alas, it didnot, and 4 CD's wasted.. I read about k3b on the net etc. Finally, I came about the way to write iso images and did that. But, all the 4 CD's failed media check and the CD's wasted again (I hope friends of green earth are not reading this). I brought the another CD drive, but the media check fails, all the same. Installing on CDRW too fails this test.

Downloaded the latest k3b, but gives the same observation. xcdroast for some reasons is not working, yes, it is asking for SCSI emulation. Now where is the problem. I know, before answering, we need to know:

It is-
FC3 on compaq nx7010.
Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R2512
k3b 0.11.24 using kde 3.3.0-5

Alex

stunter · 07-19-2005, 02:47 PM

Same for me. All 4 disks and rescue disk failed media check. Just went ahead and installed. No problems.

tommyr1216 · 07-20-2005, 09:03 AM

You could burn just disc 1, boot with it and do a web install. To do this, type "linux askmethod" at the boot prompt. Once the installer loads, you will be asked if you want to install from cd, http, ftp, nfs, etc.. Choose http, and when it asks you for a server and path:
server=download.fedora.redhat.com
path=pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os
This will download all the necessary packages for your install from the web, rather than using the cd.

lsropia · 07-20-2005, 10:15 AM

Yes, without worrying about media check, FC4 installed fine from the downloaded and burnt CD's. Thanks for the feedback.

But, then, why is media check failing?

Alex