[mythtv-users] Trouble getting Fedora?

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 15 20:00:38 EST 2005


Blake wrote:

> Hey, guys,
>
>     I decided to give up on KnoppMyth (for reasons discussed earlier) 
> and try  FC4 with Jaro(e?)d's guide, but I'm having a helluvatime 
> getting an FC4  that passes the media test. I've donwloaded the discs 
> via BitTorrent, then  FTPed them from Fedora, and I'm getting discs 
> that look good, that  boot--the torrent one even installs 
> beautifully*--but that when FC checks  them, says they don't pass the 
> media check. I just cracked open a new  stack of TDK CDs, and still 
> got the media check failure. I've used at  least two different CD 
> burners--one CD, one DVD, actually.
>
>     I don't know what the deal is. I'm using a CD Burner XP Pro to 
> burn the  ISO images, which I've never had trouble with before. I used 
> it for  Knoppmyth for example, with no problem, and Knoppix. Though, I 
> didn't do  any media checks, I just booted them and they worked. 
> (Well, not  KnoppMyth, but it didn't fail to install, just didn't do 
> what I wanted  after the installation.)
>
>     I'm really at a loss, here. Short of going down and buying FC4 
> from the  store.
>
> * You might say, "Why do you care?" But I don't want to invest the 
> time in  trying to make Myth work if I'm screwed from the start 
> because I've got a  bad FC image.
>
you could try
http://iso.linuxquestions.org/

Don't know how great it is. They say it is ;-)


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