Fedora 12 Installation problem

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Sun, 1/31/10, Reg Clemens <reg at dwf.com> wrote:


> > On 10-01-31 18:51:00, Patrick
> Bartek wrote:
> > > --- On Sun, 1/31/10, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com>
> 
> > > wrote:
> >  ...
> > > > All disks always fail the built-in test
> here, due to the
> > > > permanent kernel bug.  A more robust test
> is:
> > > > 
> > > >     # cmp /dev/dvd /path/to/iso
> > > 
> > > You can also verify the burn by
> > > 
> > >    sha256sum /dev/dvd (or whatever your
> burner is designated)
> > > 
> > > Just like you verify the ISO file.  Remember
> in Linux "everything is 
> > > a file."  ;-)
> > 
> > Yes, that's why cmp works too.  It has the
> advantage of saying where 
> > the error is.  Also, your method still leaves two
> long strings to 
> > compare.
> > 
> > -- 
> 
> NOOOOO.
> The above
>     sha256sum /dev/dvd 
>     
> will NOOOOT work.
> The problem is that the burner writes a full block to the
> [snip]

Well, it's been not working correctly for me for several years now.

Maybe, you should look into why it doesn't work for you.  My guess is that you've never tried it, since it won't work.


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