On Friday 12 March 2004 03:34 am, Poogle wrote:
> 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
You might need something different than what I posted, for
less than 10.0 systems. Try 'md5sum /mnt/cdrom' or
'md5sum /dev/scd0' Actually it's best to use your burner to
read the md5sum, so use that /mnt/ or /dev/
Yours is the first complaint I've seen where a nForce board
wasn't involved. Another issue is if the system has a SCSI CDrom.
So it's even more probable you've got a bad burn. So try again
at a lower speed (Mandrake suggests 4x on the cooker page)
cdrecord -eject -v speed=4 dev=0,0 -dao file_name.iso
Once you've got 10.0 installed with a 2.6 kernel it'll all be
different, as ide-scsi is no longer used. Run
'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus' to determine dev=ATA:
cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=ATA:3,1,0 -dao
and then with 10.0/2.6 kernel 'md5sum /dev/hdX' is what to
use. The burn option -dao is a must if you want to check the
md5sum. Absolutely do not use -pad or -data, or other options.
I use driveropts=burnfree, but if it causes any problems,
it's better not to use it at all. Particulary older drives when
burnfree first came out. I'd suggest a thoro read of 'man
cdrecord' if any of all this is fuzzy to 'ya ;)
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