On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 23:58, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday 11 March 2004 01:21 pm, Poogle wrote: > > Thanks, but this was bittorrent, md5sums on the ISO's said O.K, > > I forgot to add in my original post that I had tried booting > > from CD 2 and then changing to CD 1 when asked, that gave the > > same result > > Your iso's are only OK, _IF_ you check them before and _AFTER_ > burning. Even then, before I mail sets to friends I make sure > CD1 boots an proceeds. > > md5sum /dev/hd? ... and then compare to the appropriate > md5sum in the Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-........md5sums.asc > > If they don't exactly match, first place to look is USER > choices (how did you burn?)... hardware (system, burner, media > used). > > Is this with an nForce chipset based system? That's also a poor > USER hardware choice that has many problems. That many problems > such as this are often reported against. See cooker archive.
Thanks Tom, I'm learning all the time, Denis got to it with the burnfree issue, however I was unaware that I could md5sum AFTER burning, that tip will no doubt help in the future. BTW it's not nForce, it's VIA KT266. John -- http://www.poogle.co.uk
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