[Ambassadors] QA Quality Assurance

Thomas Chung tchung at fedoraproject.org
Fri Nov 10 00:45:29 UTC 2006


On 11/9/06, Marc Wiriadisastra <marc at mwiriadi.id.au> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> How do all of you verify that your DVD's are not corrupt and or
> verified.  I've verified my iso which is fine but with a new pack of
> dvd's I've had two people email me back with issues related to the
> dvd's.
>
> One person said that when he boots the cd it says the kernel is corrupt.
>
> The other person said that it failed the media check.
>
> I've got no issues sending new ones back to them to make sure their
> fedora experience is great. I just don't want to have this issue
> re-occur and I would like to QA the dvd's prior to them receiving them.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Marc

In most cases they are due to bad burn but it's possible they might be
damaged during shipping. ISO images are ok since you can verify them
with sha1sum.
See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/Download

In some case, I was able to install successfully regardless media
check fail. Go figure. :)
Regards,
-- 
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung




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