FC4 Not installing (DVD)

[Thomas Taylor]

On Thursday 16 June 2005 15:10, Austin Isler wrote:
> Michael A. Peters wrote:
> >On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 14:48 -0700, Austin Isler wrote:
> >>Hello guys and gals.
> >>I was also one of the people who were experiencing slow downloads on BT,
> >>but I stuck with it anyways. 3 days later and I have it. Now here is the
> >>problem. Right away I noticed that the md5sum did not match the one in
> >>the text file that came with the iso. I said "what the hell" and burned
> >>it to DVD anyways. Now when I restarted my computer to allow it to boot
> >>from the DVD, it acted like nothing was on the DVD and just when
> >>straight to booting my HD. Also when the DVD is in the drive it gives me
> >>error messages when its searching for volumes, and then when KDE boots,
> >>the PC freezes. It all seems quite strange, after all I downloaded the
> >>same iso as everyone else.
> >>
> >>
> >>Austin
> >
> >the file has an sha1sum, not an md5sum.
> >use sha1sum to verify the file.
> >
> >How did you burn it? A common mistake is to not burn the iso, but
> >instead burn a CD/DVD that has the iso file on it.
>
> In k3b I used the option to burn DVD image (Tools -> DVD -> Burn DVD ISO
> Image)
>
>
> Austin

Instead of using k3b try this command line: 
 growisofs --dvd-compat -Z /dev/cdwriter=filename.iso

Tom

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