[WBEL-users] Possible "CD 2" media check problem?

[Daniel J. Summers]

I've noticed that problems with "CD 2" have been quite rampant, to the 
point of being a FAQ.  I ran across this in alt.os.linux.redhat, and I'm 
wondering if RH released some broken "media check" code (is that in 
anaconda?).  I've never run the media check when I've done the installs, 
and I've never had a problem either.


== Original Message ==
From: paul@jbgb.com (anionic)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: FC3T2 rocks! as good as Suse 9.1 pro IMO
Date: 5 Oct 2004 05:38:19 -0700

res <res@verizon.net> wrote in message news:<LMH7d.1671$na.909@trnddc04>...
> I'm happy to say this is my fist time that Fedora works and does it work!
> 
> I had problems with the cd's, ...

Hmm, so did I (wasted quite a bit of time so far).
What were your problems?

My .iso downloads went fine, the md5sum checks were
spot on, but the media check during installation said
that CDs 2 & 4 were bad.  I've written CD2 with various
software and hardware - always bad.

Are they really bad, or is the media test misleading me?

What bad things can happen if I install from bad media?
Will it just fail part way through or will I get a corrupt
installation?

== end forwarded message ==

That question in the next-to-last paragraph is what triggered this 
question - with *so many* people having trouble, is it possible the 
media check is bad, and not that there are just a bunch of people who 
don't know how to burn a CD?


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