On 9/4/06, Bjorgen T. Eatinger <beatinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am trying to create the 5 CDs necessary for a new Fedora Core 5 installation, and can never get a good burn. The media check always fails, during installation. Once thing I noticed is that the ISO images appear to be a bit larger than 650MB, which is the recordable size of the CDs I am using. I will try 700MB CDs, but I wonder why the images would be distributed to be over 650MB, and if this is really the issue. I tried burning the CDs using 3 different burners on 3 different workstations, with the same results. Is there a recommended media manufacturer? I am burning at the slowest speed (16x) possible as well. I have never had so much trouble burning CDs before! In fact, this got so crazy, that I finally gave up and purchased a Fedora book on Core 2 which contained the CDs, and they worked perfect. But I am now running 3 versions behind. This has been an extremely frustrating experience, to say the least. This is so much trouble, that I wish there was a company that produced and sold a commercial Fedora release on CDs. Sincerely, Bjorgen T. Eatinger --
Did you use the same brand and/or batch of media? If so go out and buy a different brand. Also, try not to get the fastest media on the shelf. I find that the fastest media are giving my systems with older drives the most difficulty.
