FC6 PPC Disc test fails

[Donald Tripp]

Thats whats I was thinking too. I'll do a full install and see what  
happens. I was just wondering if there was a bug in the disc check or  
something.


- Donald Tripp
  dtripp at hawaii.edu
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On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:08 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:14 -1000, Donald Tripp wrote:
>> I have downloaded both the CD set and the DVD iso images of FC6  
>> PPC. I
>> checked the sums on an i386 FC6 box, and they passed. I then burned
>> them using my MacBook Pro and DiskUtility. When I test the discs
>> during install, they all fail. I tried several different mirrors, and
>> the same thing happens.
>
> If the checksums are OK, the odds are that the discs are OK.  The disc
> check in the installer often fails.
>
> The most reliable check I've been able to run on Intel and AMD  
> platforms
> is to disable DMA ("boot: linux nodma"), do the disc check, then  
> reboot
> with DMA enabled to do the actual install (after the disc check says
> they're OK).  I don't know if the PPC system allows that (it probably
> does), so try it.  Remember, turn off DMA ONLY for the disc check.
> Leave it enabled for the actual installation.
>
> But again, if you got no errors on the burn and the ISOs checksum
> correctly, your odds are over 97% that the discs are fine.
>
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