DVD Finalization appears to corrupt FC6 installer

[Charles Butterfield]

Anne Wilson <cannewilson <at> tiscali.co.uk> writes:

> 
> On Thursday 02 November 2006 07:15, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 November 2006 00:37, 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 have not had any such probelms here except with my old version of k3b,
> > which is still using md5sums for that.  However, every disk it says is
> > bad, is indeed good if that disks total blocks are known from the size of
> > the iso, and dd is used to feed that number of block of size block out to
> > sha1sum.  That has checked correct everytime so far here.
> >
> I burned the FC6 DVD in k3b under FC4.  I always burn with verify set, and 
it 
> verified at first attempt.  I've installed from the disk without problems.  
I 
> don't think it is burning/finalising as such that's causing your problem.
> 
> Anne
> 
> 
Well it sounds like my problems were just a weird coincidence.  It is possible 
that the first two DVDs were bad for some reason (as well as burned with 
finalization) and the third was good.  Oh well.

Thanks for the replies.
-- Charlie