DVD Finalization appears to corrupt FC6 installer
Tim
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Thu Nov 2 15:27:01 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 00:37 -0500, Charles Butterfield wrote:
> Perhaps it’s just a coincidence, but I burned two DVDs of the FC6
> installation with finalization and they were both corrupt somehow.
> The third DVD, burned from the same downloaded ISO file was burned
> without finalization and is not corrupt. Does this make sense? Is it
> in some sense obvious? Anyway, if the finalization truly causes a
> problem, perhaps this posting will help someone else.
I wouldn't have thought you should finalise an ISO sourced disc. The
ISO is an image of what should be on the disc. It is a finalised image,
in itself.
Finalising is to do with when *YOU* are creating a file system on a
disc, from anew. You're not doing that, in this case.
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