Check media broken?

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Sat Nov 26 03:36:54 UTC 2005


On 11/25/05, Sandy Pond <sandy_pond at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> The check media at installation time fails, however, when I mount the
> iso file in "-o loop" and run a "diff -r" between the iso file and the
> cdrom everything compares fine.
>
> I'm going to try the install from the media anyhow.


>From the release notes:

The mediacheck function is highly sensitive, and may report some
 usable discs as faulty. This result is often caused by disc writing
 software that does not include padding when creating discs from ISO
  files. For best results with the mediacheck, boot with the option:

 linux ide=nodma




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