On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 07:30 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 00:30 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I'm trying to burn a DVD for installing FC3. I've downloaded > > FC3-i386-DVD.iso using BitTorrent; it checks OK comparing the > > accompanying md5 file MD5SUM. > > > > I've tried to burn a DVD using k3b; so far I've made 4 such DVDs. > > Unfortunately, these DVDs are all bad. K3b indicates a comparison > > failure, and invoking "linux mediacheck" on booting from the DVD > > indicates the same thing. Some of the DVDs won't boot at all. > > > > The CD/DVD drive is a LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S. The DVD blanks are > > Memorex 4X DVD-R. K3b was running in "Auto" speed burning some DVDs and > > in "4x" speed burning others. > > > > Does anyone know what the problem might be? Any idea on how to cure > > it? Different brand of DVD blanks? Clean the drive? Whatever? > > I have the exact same model of DVD burner running on FC3 with no issues. > I've burned a stack of 25 FC3 DVDs using TDK 4x DVD+R media with no > problems so far. > > I did notice a number of issues burning CDs and DVDs on FC2 just before > I switched over to FC3 (which I did at Test3). This was particularly > true when running K3B - it just acted outright "goofy" at times. It > could be something there. K3B seems much more stable on FC3 though. I'll > be switching over to Memorex 8X DVD+R media shortly and will post if I > run into any troubles. > > Sorry I couldn't help more, but perhaps my info will jog someone else's > memory or at least get you headed in the right direction. > Come to think of it (now that I've had a cup of coffee), you might try booting one of the older FC2 kernels, pre-2.6.8, as I remember they made changes to the the kernel starting there which caused some CD/DVD burning problems. You couldn't do it at all if you weren't root and some folks still had problems even then... Cheers, Chris -- ==================================== "If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' someone else's dog around." --Cowboy Wisdom
