On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 07:21, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > 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. > > Christopher A. Williams wrote: > 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... Beri, Rohit wrote: > What version of kernel are u using? > also do you see any issues burning CD-R or CD-RW. > > I know I was having issues burning CD-R/RW with kernel 2.6.8.xxxx > so now I use 2.6.7.xx on FC2 I've had the same problem on two different systems (different hardware and software): FC2 running Linux version 2.6.8-1.521 with a SONY DVD RW DRU-510A drive. The processor is an intel Pentium III FC3 running Linux version 2.6.9-1.667 with a LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S drive. The processor is an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ I'm aware of the problem with kernel versions. With kernels at or after 2.6.8, I haven't been able to run gcombust at all or cdrecord except as root, but I have successfully made CDs using k3e. I have been able to burn one DVD successfully, namely the one for the AMD system, (FC3-x86_64-DVD.iso) on the FC2 system. I have not had similar problems burning CDs. These are my first attempts to burn DVDs, either data or video. Thanks - jon
