DJA wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
DJA wrote:
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.
I did not burn the CDs. Neither do I have the ISOs.
I don't see how that's relevant. Other than you aren't _certain_ that
the CD burns were good. But then do you trust the person who gave you
the CD's?
I don't know his burning routine though I assume it's good.
What I said was, in essence, "The install /is/ a test of the CD's".
Your choices are A) run the installer's media test first, then install
(assuming the media passes), or B) skip the tests and install. But for
the case of A, a pass test means nothing; a fail test means nothing.
You can't trust the test. That's true from what I can tell for *any*
version of Fedora *or any version of Redhat*! It looks like probably
no one ever thoroughly tested the test on actual bad media.
The tests take a noticeable amount of time - there are four CD's in
the FC4 set. The install itself does not take a lot of time.
Noticeable, yes, but still quicker than an install.
So - just run the install. If you have bad media, you'll know. Do you
run media tests on every CD for every app you install? Do you test
Windows media? Games?
I tried, but the media test (of rh9) didn't find what it needed in order
to test them.
Ignore the stoopid media tests and get on with the install - hell,
you've already spent more time typing and wringing your hands about it
than you would've spent on downloading and burning the ISO's yourself
and doing a second install for the case that you _actually_ got bad
media from Rich (which I doubt).
I tend to doubt it too. But not knowing that the media test was
unreliable, it gave me pause.
Bottom line: none of Redhat's media tests can be relied on.
Very well. Thank you.
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