On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 08:37:29PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > On Sunday 21 November 2004 14:14, Rich Renomeron wrote: > > FWIW, CDs 2, 3, and 4 failed the media checker, even though the MD5s > > looked OK. ?So I went and installed from them anyway, and it appeard to > > work fine. ?YMMV, though, especially since I'm not sure why they failed, > > or where. > > I installed FC3 on a test machine today. I accidentally checked my DVD a > second time. It passed the first time, failed the second. > > Hmph! i said, and installed it. > The media check is very dependent on the hardware. I have had a number of CD-s that fail the media check on one piece of hardware but pass on others. This is where ide=nodma is helpful. -- ======================================================================= Happiness adds and multiplies as we divide it with others. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
