Disk 2 and 3 Corupt - maybe not :-)

[Karl Larsen]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 11:18 -0600, Reg Clemens wrote:
>   
>>>>> and burned at speed 12 and then 2 (using ISO Recorder). Both times disk
>>>>> 2 failed the test.
>>>>>           
>> Try running a CD cleaner disk thru your CD reader, the lens may be
>> dirty.  
>>     
>
> That's possible.  It's more likely that a "hdX=nodma" or "ide=nodma" on
> the boot command line would solve this issue.
>
> Also, if you used a verify-after-burn thing to compare the burned CD
> against the ISO image after you burned it and they matched, just skip
> the damned CD verify step in the install.  I mean, you checked the ISO,
> you verified that the burned CD matched the ISO...why bother checking it
> yet a second time?  Turn off DMA using one of the options above and
> install.
>
>   
>> But yea, this new 'policy' of only having one try at a disk in 
>> Fedora 5 really sucks.  If I had problems like this before I would remove
>> the disk, polish it a bit, and try again.  ALWAYS worked.
>>     
>
> Uh, yeah.  Personally, when I see ISO images at 688MB, I think it's time
> for the powers-that-be to start creating 6-disc distributions.  688MB is
> pushing a 700MB CD WAY too farking hard.  Don't forget, there's a 10MB
> lead-in and a 10MB lead-out on each "session".  Right there, you're
> talking about squeezing 708MB onto a 700MB single-session disc.  It's
> pretty obvious why many people have issues, isn't it?
>
> CDs are reasonably cheap.  A 6-disc collection is only going to cost 20%
> more in raw media cost than a 5-disc collection (with current prices,
> that's what, $0.75 US?).  Hardly worth talking about, and a lot of the
> "verify failed" or "I burned a coaster" complaints will just "go away."
>
> Packagers, really, an ISO of 650MB is about all you can reasonably
> expect people to burn and verify reliably on most home drives.  Please
> don't push CD images larger than that...you're simply asking for lots of
> angry bug reports and doubts cast upon your ancestry.
>   
    What has happened between Red Hat 6.2 on one cd and FC5 on 5 cd's?  
I recall that 6.2 was a banner issue and I used it for a long time. I 
still have the Cheap-Bytes cd :-)

Karl


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