On 3/23/06, Kevin H. Hobbs <kevin.hobbs.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 08:25 -0500, Mark Haney wrote: > > I was all ready to run with upgrading my FC4 boxes to FC5 last night at > > home after doing several at work. I burned the i386 DVD (which wasn't > > used here at work since we only have 64-bit) and took it home. K3b > > passed the checksum when burning, the installer Disc Test passed the > > DVD, but when starting the actual upgrade process it got to the first > > package (gtk+ or something) and errored out saying the package was > > corrupt or the disc was bad. Has anyone seen this on FC5 other than myself? > > > > -- > > k3b calculates an md5sum on images when and makes a happy little check > next to the sum when it's done. This doesn't really mean anything > because any old junk will have an md5sum. k3b does have a verify burned > cd button that compares the CD to the ISO, but again this doesn't mean > anything since you could have just burned a good copy of junk data. > > A file is distributed with the ISOs called SHA1SUM that contains > checksums of the ISOs. You can check all the files at once with : > > sha1sum --check SHA1SUM > > However the checksums in SHA1SUM could be garbage or forged so that file > is gpg signed. You can check it with : > > gpg --verify SHA1SUM > > Assuming the drive that you used to install FC5 is not the one that you used to burn the discs. Here are things you can do: 1) burn the discs at a slower speed (e.g. 4X instead of 8X), 2) use a different brand of media, or 3) use DVD+R in place of DVD-R. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
