I/O, Sector Error booting Fedora 9 DVD

[Marc Ferguson]

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 10:08 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 08:47 -0500, dsavage at peaknet.net wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm not in front of my computer (and I'm a linux noob) so my terms and
> > > details may be off a bit. I'm running Fedora 8 on my desktop and I
> > > downloaded the full 4GB iso for F9. I burned the DVD at 18x or some
> > > other god-forsaken slow speed. When I boot with the DVD it gives me
> > > some wierd i/o, sector and I can't continue with the installation.
> > >
> > > I'm trying to install it on my IBM Thinkpad R40, but I tried the boot
> > > DVD on my desktop too with the same result.
> > 
> > Mark,
> > 
> > Some things to check...
> > 
> > First of all, make sure that the DVD ISO file you downloaded is not
> > corrupt. There was a very small text file named SHA1SUM that you should
> > should have downloaded along with the ISO(s). Put it in the same directory
> > as the ISO(s) and run:
> > 
> > $ sha1sum -c SHA1SUM
> > 
> > If it does not say your DVD ISO is "OK", it is corrupt and you'll have to
> > download it again. (This would be a good time to learn about rsync.) Make
> > sure that whatever file transfer utility you are using can accurately pull
> > down a file larger than 2GB. Some can't.
> > 
> > Next, check your DVD burning process. Have you successfully burned DVDs
> > before? With the DVD blanks you're currently using? (If you're using DVD+R
> > blanks, is your burner certified for "+"?) What burner software are you
> > using? The best way to burn a DVD from an ISO in Fedora 8 is to right
> > click on its icon in a Nautilus (like Explorer) window and select "Write
> > to disk".
> > 
> > Finally, if you clear both of these wickets safely, there's an integrity
> > check to run shortly after you boot from the DVD. Pass that and you should
> > be able to get through the rest of the installation.
> 
> Personally I just go straight to this last one, because passing the
> previous tests gives you no guarantee the disk is correctly burned, and
> if the downloaded file is wrong it will also pick it up even if the burn
> is correct.
> 
> poc
> 

Thanks for all your help.  I figured out that I downloaded the wrong
file.  I downloaded i686 version instead of i386.  I got F9 running on
my Thinkpad R40, now I'm just trying to get wireless to work.  I got all
my WEP information in, but it's not connecting.

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