At 6:15 PM +0930 5/13/07, Tim wrote: >On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 21:34 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: >> Mediacheck often fails on good CDs due to a won't-fix kernel bug. I >> don't usually have a problem, possibly because I finalize my disks > >I can't see how you can finalise a disc that's been burnt from an ISO. >Finalising is closing off an uncompleted file system / closing a >session. The ISOs for installing Linux are images that already in that >state. If they distributed unfinished ISO images, there'd be an awful >lot of systems that couldn't read the disc. It usually takes a system >set up for burning discs to be able to read unfinished ones, and even >then, some will only read their own unfinished discs. That certainly >precludes PCs booting from a disc from the BIOS. Finalizing has nothing to do with the data being written. Finalizing refers to the media, not the data. If the media is not finalized, more sessions can be written to it. How the data in earlier sessions is treated depends on how whatever is reading it deals with multiple sessions. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
