On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 16:30 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Too confusing for new users. It would need to cover other operating > systems, offer links to Windows md5sum utilities and so on. And it > doesn't protect from media errors. > > Fedora has a built-in media verification step, which everybody, who > does not know how to verify downloaded ISO images and burnt DVDs, > ought to use: > > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f8/en_US/sn-verifying-media.html > > Don't skip it if you haven't verified burnt discs with a tool like > k3b. The problem with that is twofold: If you've downloaded garbage, you'll burn garbage, which you won't detect until you've wasted a disc or three. A simpler process to check your download before burning it is important. There's that long-standing bug that some drives will mess up when you do the media check. You should, still, do some sort of burnt disc verification, but this needs improving, too. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
