Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Tom Gal wrote:
Worked Back then = RH9 came before FC3.
Either:
1) The test was always messed up, in which case you're wasting your
time either way -OR-
2) The people in charge of fedora supplanted a functional CD test with
a non-functional error prone test which still makes it sound like
you're wasting your time.
2a) The testing software became messed up, which means that an older
version should still be reliable.
2b) The checksum, MD5, or whatnot is what became messed up, which means
that the testing software doesn't have a chance, regardless of version.
Granted, I do not know *how* the media testing software actually tests
the media. I don't know how it can know whether any particular bit is
supposed to be on or off. So I assume it must be some kind of elaborate
checksum type of thing.
I'll make it easier for you. As I remember, the chronic problem with the
CD testing code in FC4 was that almost always said one or more CD's were
bad when in fact they weren't. I don't remember it reporting bad CD's as
good.
So...Given the length of time it takes to run the tests on all four CD's
anyway, you won't lose much time if you just do the install and it ends
up barfing due to bad media. Think of the install as its own media test.
And as has been pointed out, not even the first: your CD burning
software should have caught problems already if the ISO's source was
known to be good.
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