[WBEL-users] Downloading ISO 2

[Loyd]

> Loyd wrote:
>
> >Ron,
> >I downloaded Cheetah CD Burner and set the burn speed well below my rated
> >burner speed.  It's a 32 and I burned it at 16 speed.
> >MD5sum.exe is used to compare the checksum of an ISO file before you burn
> >it.  The checksum is usually displayed on the site you downloaded the
ISO's
> >from.
> >MD5sum.exe into google recieved the link below.
> >http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
> >
> >When you boot to the first CD durring install you can type the custom
> >command LINUX MEDIACHECK to check to see if the media has been burned
> >properly.
> >


>Ben Nickell wrote;

> For those having trouble installing from CD's, first make sure you cd
> downloaded and burned properly by checking the md5sums, as described by
> ohters.

I'm pretty sure Windows md5sum checkers won't check the actual media, which
the Linux versions do.   If you know of one that does, let me know please?

> If you have a good disc and it still doesn't work, I've had trouble on
> some cdrom drives, and got it to install using  'linux ide=nodma'   as
> the command to boot from the first cd.

I've seen that as well, initially I thought my problem was becasue of an the
Ancient 8x CR-ROM I was installing it from.