Troubles getting F9

[Beartooth]

On Mon, 19 May 2008 15:57:37 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:

> Beartooth wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 May 2008 11:46:21 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
[...]
>>> Compare the number(s) you get against that in the SHA1SUM file in the
>>> same directory as the .iso image(s).  The sha1sums should be:
>>>
>>> 	50253a35b5ba128c9a57b2a10cbd829813fc5119 (32-bit DVD)
>>> 	f92576227484a4eeda0e86a497836c67c34d20ef (64-bit DVD)
[...]
>> 	On my #2 machine, where I have #3 download (done with gwget), I
>> have just compared the calculated sha1sum with the 32-bit one above.
>> They match.
[...]
> [...]  It's right there on the man page.

	Now, *that*, SIR, is the great grand-daddy of classic lines.
[...] 
>> It sure couldn't hurt.  I don't trust USB hubs or switches or long
>>> cables for media I'm trying to burn where you only get one shot.  For
>>> normal R/W stuff (e.g. a USB-interfaced hard drive) it's OK (even if
>>> the I/O is often slower), but you only get to try to burn that DVD
>>> once. If there's a buffer underrun or something, you've got a nice
>>> coaster but not a usable disc.
>> 
>> 	I'll do that in a minute. Meanwhile, fwiw, machine #1 finished a
>> bittorrent download. I burned it, and checked it, with Brasero. But the
>> laptop can't boot from it, either in its own drive or in the external.
>> <sigh>
> 
> You're sure it got burned using the .iso file as an image?  The most
> common error is burning the .iso file as a file.  If you put the disc
> into a drive (even the one you just burned it in), it SHOULD show up as
> a bunch of files.  If you only see one, you burned it wrong.

	I must've been punch-drunk by this point yesterday. Trying over 
some of the DVDs I was sure of, I find they seem this morning to be 
blank ...

>> 	OK, the external drive is now plugged directly into this machine
>> (#2 machine, which has only a read-only drive of its own)), with a
>> DVD-RW disk. I'll let K3B finish calculating its md5 sum, then try to
>> burn with that. Stay tuned.
[...]

	I just tackled the gwget download again -- the one whose every 
conceivable sha1sum checked : what was *in* the download, what you gave, 
what my machine calculated *from the download, ...

	Curious effect with K3B, and the external drive plugged directly 
to the machine. It kept pointing out that I had an ISO, and asking if I 
wanted to burn it directly; I kept agreeing to that; and then it kept 
hitting a write error. Afaict, even after my highlighting the external 
drive, it kept reverting to the internal one -- which is read-only.

	So I switched to Brasero. (I often find that one of K3B or 
Brasero will succeed where the other fails.)

	Brasero took it, ran with it, and announced success. So I moved 
the USB plug from that PC to the laptop -- and it booted into F9. It has 
checked 36% of the DVD so far, just on principle after all this trouble; 
but past experience has been that a disk that will boot will install. 
Keep your fingers crossed.
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things we philologers have in common with you technoids.

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