Re: New FC5 installation Package manager can not find installation files

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At 5:26 PM +0100 6/22/06, Paul Howarth wrote:
>Tony Nelson wrote:
>> At 10:36 AM +0100 6/22/06, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>  ...
>>> What you need are the ISO files used to create the CDs. If you never had
>>> the ISO files, you can create them from the CDs but that's a non-trivial
>>> process so we'll not go into it unless necessary.
>>  ...
>>
>> Won't dd'ing the cds onto files do it?  It's what I've done.
>
>It will but you might get additional garbage at the end of the file that
>causes the SHA1SUM to be wrong (you do check this, don't you ;-) ?).
>This is the same problem that causes mediacheck to fail on some hardware.

Actually, checksumming is the main reason I do it.  Via your isograb script
you told us about a bit of magic, isosize, to use if the drive returns
extra data.
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