I would like to try upgrading my Fedora Core 4 test box. I have been trying to use torrents with little success. I need an i386 version of the media. I have tried three times to get a set of cd images, but disc5 and rescuecd fail at sha1sum. I first tried the dvd image, but that died several times without completing. I will need the disc5 image to complete the update attempt. Is there some other source that I could try? Or is there some other way to create the image that I need.
Thanks,
Jpearson
On Thursday 23 February 2006 1:37 pm, John Pearson wrote:
I would like to try upgrading my Fedora Core 4 test box. I have been trying to use torrents with little success. I need an i386 version of the media. I have tried three times to get a set of cd images, but disc5 and rescuecd fail at sha1sum. I first tried the dvd image, but that died several times without completing. I will need the disc5 image to complete the update attempt. Is there some other source that I could try? Or is there some other way to create the image that I need.
Thanks,
Jpearson
I found a mirror and am downloading another copy. It just took posting here, I guess?
-jpearson
... 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
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:05:09AM -0800, John Reiser wrote:
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
The spec is fine, the kernel is not.
Alan
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
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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
John Pearson wrote:
I would like to try upgrading my Fedora Core 4 test box. I have been trying to use torrents with little success. I need an i386 version of the media. I have tried three times to get a set of cd images, but disc5 and rescuecd fail at sha1sum. I first tried the dvd image, but that died several times without completing. I will need the disc5 image to complete the update attempt. Is there some other source that I could try? Or is there some other way to create the image that I need.
Wow someone who downloads BOTH CD5 and checksums their EMTIRE installation media set. i'm buying a lotto ticket or more life insurance dont know which.
On 2/23/06, John Pearson jpearson42@wowway.com wrote:
I would like to try upgrading my Fedora Core 4 test box. I have been trying to use torrents with little success. I need an i386 version of the media. I have tried three times to get a set of cd images, but disc5 and rescuecd fail at sha1sum.
Hmm... I'm pretty sure i did the sha1sum check on the disks i pulled down over torrent and they all passed...but I'll do it again just for you later when I get home. I burned the media and ran mediacheck on all 5 i386 isos and they passed. I'm not sure why you are having trouble with disk5 from the torrent.
-jef
On Thursday 23 February 2006 3:04 pm, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On 2/23/06, John Pearson jpearson42@wowway.com wrote:
I would like to try upgrading my Fedora Core 4 test box. I have been trying to use torrents with little success. I need an i386 version of the media. I have tried three times to get a set of cd images, but disc5 and rescuecd fail at sha1sum.
Hmm... I'm pretty sure i did the sha1sum check on the disks i pulled down over torrent and they all passed...but I'll do it again just for you later when I get home. I burned the media and ran mediacheck on all 5 i386 isos and they passed. I'm not sure why you are having trouble with disk5 from the torrent.
-jef
I did manage to find a localish mirror and pull down a copy which is good. I can't really comment on why the image was bad. But sha1sum was not happy, k3b claimed it was not a usable image file.
The new one checked out, burned, the glass copy passed a byte for byte check after burning.
More importantly, the upgrade completed cleanly. I have to upgraded version running, and I am starting to do some verification with it.
Thanks
-Jpearson
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