Trouble Burning Core 5 CDs

[Kam Leo]

On 9/4/06, Bjorgen T. Eatinger <beatinger at edenhosting.net> wrote:
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> I am trying to create the 5 CDs necessary for a new Fedora Core 5
> installation, and can never get a good burn.  The media check always fails,
> during installation.
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>  Once thing I noticed is that the ISO images appear to be a bit larger than
> 650MB, which is the recordable size of the CDs I am using.  I will try 700MB
> CDs, but I wonder why the images would be distributed to be over 650MB, and
> if this is really the issue.
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>  I tried burning the CDs using 3 different burners on 3 different
> workstations, with the same results.  Is there a recommended media
> manufacturer?  I am burning at the slowest speed (16x) possible as well.
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>  I have never had so much trouble burning CDs before!  In fact, this got so
> crazy, that I finally gave up and purchased a Fedora book on Core 2 which
> contained the CDs, and they worked perfect.  But I am now running 3 versions
> behind.  This has been an extremely frustrating experience, to say the
> least.
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>  This is so much trouble, that I wish there was a company that produced and
> sold a commercial Fedora release on CDs.
>
>  Sincerely, Bjorgen T. Eatinger
> --

Did you use the same brand and/or batch of media?  If so go out and
buy a different brand.    Also, try not to get the fastest media on
the shelf. I find that the fastest media are giving my systems with
older drives the most difficulty.