[mythtv-users] Trouble getting Fedora?

[Walter Boese Jr.]

I've had the same problemwith bad media checks.  The checksums checked 
out okay, but I could run the media check multiple times on the same 
disk and get a mix of pass and fails.  As long as I got a pass I called 
it good.  Not that this is a guarantee, but it worked for me.

Walter Boese Jr.



Chris Trown wrote:
> 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.
>>
> 
> 
>      I would start by making sure that the images you are downloading 
> are not currupt  Check the MD5 sums of the image vs. what Fedora 
> publishes.  On Linux, use md5sum.  On windows, I use a utility called 
> Hashcalc from SlavaSoft.
> 
> http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/
> 
>      Once you know that you have good images, then you can focus on 
> getting the CDs burned correctly.  Others more knowledgeable than I will 
> no doubt comment on that here.
> 
> Chris...
> 
> 
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