checking sh1asum of Fedora Core 6 Installation DVD without boot

[Tim]

On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 16:50 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Your file may have extra bytes appended to the end of it because the 
> kernel does not detect the end of the written data (this is what
> causes mediacheck errors in the first place). This extra data causes
> the checksum to be calculated incorrectly

That's the second fault related to checking install discs that ought to
get fixed, rather than worked around.  Hasn't anybody worked out why it
doesn't do it correctly?

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