is Fedora 12 alpha for x86_64 burnable and usable?

Aioanei Rares schaiba at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 14:11:36 UTC 2009


Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   i downloaded Fedora-12-Alpha-x86_64-DVD.iso, it seems to be fine,
> "isovfy" looks good, the sha256sum checksum matches, it's "-o loop"
> mountable, but i've tried twice to use k3b to burn it to DVD and the
> result is a DVD that *visually* looks like it's had something burned
> to it but two different machines claim that the DVD is blank and
> refuse to mount it.
>
>   i've never had this difficulty before with downloading and burning
> fedora DVDs.  thoughts?
>
> rday
>
> p.s.  not surprisingly, i can't boot from a "burned" DVD since it
> simply appears blank.
>
> p.p.s.  for the first time, i'm using a different brand of DVD --
> imation DVD+R.  i hesitate to blame the media but ... who knows?
> --
>
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> Robert P. J. Day                               Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
>
>         Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry.
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>   
I burned and used it with no problems. Try brand name media and your k3b 
settings (DAO, speed, etc.)




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