When you burn the iso image, make sure the computer isn't trying to do too many other things. This is less of a problem now, but in the "good old days" the computer could be so busy that it wouldn't get data to the burner fast enough, and that would result in a bad copy (also known as a "coaster," as in: "3: a covering (plate or mat) that protects the surface of a table (i.e., from the condensation on a cold glass or bottle)"). On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 22:37 +0000, John Pilkington wrote: > On 12/11/10 22:06, William Stock wrote: > > in a terminal window, cd to the directory with the bittorrent files > > (example: cd Download/Fedora-14-i386-DVD) and enter: sha256sum -c > > *CHECKSUM > > > > (This is the lazy man's way to do it. The system will try to find all > > the CDs too, and fail them, but who cares? Just so the DVD you're > > interested in is OK.) > > > > apropos sha256 will give you a list of likely candidates, and > > man sha256sum will give you a quick& dirty synopsis of the command. > > > > Good Luck. > > (For years, before DVDs came along, the first CD (FTP) of the set would > > test OK for me, and all the rest would test bad, but they all worked > > fine. I've had Brasero lie to me as well.) > > Bill > > > > > > On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:20 -0500, Vincent wrote: > >> Hello All' > >> I downloaded fedora-14-i386-dvd.iso several time included bitorrent. The > >> dvd disk were burned from two different computer, they all show error > >> during the test. The installation were tested on 3 different computer. > >> The bittorrent when downloaded made a directory "fedora-14-i386-dvd" in > >> I found 2 files "fedora-14-i386-dvd.iso" and "fedora-14-i386-checksum" > >> this is the first time I used bittorrent and do not know how to use the > >> checksum to verify the iso file, this file however, when burned on dvd > >> and tested during the installation shows error also. Am I doing some > >> thing wrong? > >> I appreciate some help. > >> > > > > > You did 'burn as an ISO image', didn't you? > > John P > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines