FC2T2 DVD - boots, but no media check

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed Mar 31 14:43:45 UTC 2004


Once upon a time, Chris Kloiber <ckloiber at redhat.com> said:
> That depends on how implantisomd5 was called (assuming it was caled at
> all) during the mastering of the DVD iso. Boot the DVD with 'linux
> mediacheck' and see if it passes. If if does, it's still a 'good' disk.
> If not, then either implantisomd5 was not used when the DVD was created,
> or you have a 'bad' disk.

I'll check it when I get home.  Looking at the ISO image, it does have
the MD5 string, so implantisomd5 was run.

> I typically rsync the files to my local
> machine (minus the SRPMS to save bandwidth) then create my DVD iso
> locally using my script, so I am not sure what the distribution DVD's
> default behavior is. It should probably be similar to the downloadable
> CD isos.

I downloaded all the CDs, ran my script to build a DVD image, and then
rsynced that to get the "official" DVD image.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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