Re: Tips for passing the media check

[Joe Smith <jes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> ...
> Indeed, and turning off DMA doesn't always fix the problem either. Alan 
> Cox suggests just not bothering with the media check at all.

Except that the installer is not at all graceful about handling data 
problems during the actual installation process. More than once, I've 
gotten near the end of an install and had a read error (sometimes a 
flakey drive; sometimes a bad cd), at which point you are back exactly 
to square one. No manual re-tries, no re-tries from another drive, no 
skip the package and go on. At least if the media check succeeds, I've 
never had the install die later on.