Paul Howarth: >>> Your file may have extra bytes appended to the end of it because the >>> kernel does not detect the end of the written data Tim: >> That's the second fault related to checking install discs that ought to >> get fixed, rather than worked around. Hasn't anybody worked out why it >> doesn't do it correctly? Paul Howarth: > It's the same fault, namely the kernel returning too much data on some > hardware. If it was an easy fix, I'm sure it would have been done by now. It and the DMA fault are the same thing? But anyway, this would beg the question: Does it ever manage to read from the drive properly? (Post installation.) -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.