FC5T3 iso image question

[John Pearson]

On Thursday 23 February 2006 2:05 pm, John Reiser wrote:
> >>... I have tried three times to get a set of cd images, but disc5 and
> >>rescuecd fail at sha1sum.
>
> There is a reasonable probability that the CDs are OK, even though
> mediacheck says that they are not.  Compare the checksums of the harddisk
> sources (which are NOT the same as the mediacheck CD checksums) with the
> checksums published by the mirror site for each file.  If the harddisk
> source is OK, and 3 of 5 CDs pass mediacheck, then chances are that the
> other 2 CDs are OK, too.
>
> Did you try "boot: linux ide=nodma" like it suggests in the Release Notes?
> This isn't guaranteed to work, but sometimes [1/2 ?  2/3 ? 3/4 ?] it does.
> There CD-ROM spec is too loose; it is somewhat hard to determine reliably
> where the end of recorded data is.  Old kernel module ide_scsi could deal
> with the problem in most cases, but the current ide subsystem cannot.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=131858
>
> --

Well, my thought is that somewhere the data stream conflumagated.  I just 
crossed my fingers and went on with the 4 discs that were good.  Installation 
started right up, and the first 4 discs loaded.  Then it wanted the disc 5.  
so I am stuck, kind of.  I either find a working disc 5 to complete the 
upgrade, or dump the install -- lossing the chance to test the upgrade path.  
I am planning a clean install after this test, anyway.

OK, a quasi-local mirror just provided an image that checksummed.  I will 
write/read-back and then finish up the install.  

Thanks for the timely, helpful replies.

-Jpearson