DVD Finalization appears to corrupt FC6 installer

Kip Thomas kip.thomas at gmail.com
Thu Nov 2 16:15:21 UTC 2006


cdrecord -v dev=ATAPI:1,0,0 image.iso             or whatever dev you have

on the windows software, if you burn iso images i don't think it gives you
the option to
finalize it either.

not sure what he uses to burn it.

On 11/2/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> 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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