DVD Finalization appears to corrupt FC6 installer

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Thu Nov 2 15:27:01 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 00:37 -0500, Charles Butterfield wrote:
> Perhaps it’s just a coincidence, but I burned two DVDs of the FC6
> installation with finalization and they were both corrupt somehow.
>  The third DVD, burned from the same downloaded ISO file was burned
> without finalization and is not corrupt.  Does this make sense?  Is it
> in some sense obvious?  Anyway, if the finalization truly causes a
> problem, perhaps this posting will help someone else.

I wouldn't have thought you should finalise an ISO sourced disc.  The
ISO is an image of what should be on the disc.  It is a finalised image,
in itself.

Finalising is to do with when *YOU* are creating a file system on a
disc, from anew.  You're not doing that, in this case.

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