Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-27 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 04:17:51 +0100, j t ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: md5sum -b /dev/scd0 The output should match the md5sum of the ISO image. Not _strictly_ true (due to blank/null padding which is sometimes

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-27 Thread j t
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Bob Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for that. With pleasure (I remember all too well the pain of banging my head against a wall, trying to understand optical disk burning/verification under linux). I've also found a much simpler method for checking that

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-26 Thread j t
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: md5sum -b /dev/scd0 The output should match the md5sum of the ISO image. Not _strictly_ true (due to blank/null padding which is sometimes added to the end of iso disk images, and issues with the infamous read-ahead bug in

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 21:21:23 -0300, tyler wrote: Bob Cox writes: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 15:35:00 -0300, tyler wrote: A typical result is burning the CD with KB3, which appears to work, but then complains that the disk image does not match the downloaded ISO when the verification

cd burning not going well

2008-06-24 Thread tyler
Hi, I'm trying to burn a copy of Xubuntu as a rescue disk. My laptop (Thinkpad R60) is running Lenny, with KB3 installed. I also have access to a variety of machines running Windows. I have tried no less than a dozen times to burn this @#$% CD, and every time has failed. I have tried the

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-24 Thread Patrick A. Ouellette
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 03:35:00PM -0300, tyler wrote: I'm trying to burn a copy of Xubuntu as a rescue disk. My laptop (Thinkpad R60) is running Lenny, with KB3 installed. I also have access to a variety of machines running Windows. I have tried no less than a dozen times to burn this @#$%

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-24 Thread tyler
Patrick A. Ouellette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 03:35:00PM -0300, tyler wrote: A typical result is burning the CD with KB3, which appears to work, but then complains that the disk image does not match the downloaded ISO when the verification check completes. If I try

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-24 Thread Michael Marsh
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 4:41 PM, tyler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried downloading on three different machines. I just now tried to burn the LinuxMint CD, which failed with the same error. Have you tried running isovfy (from genisoimages) on the isos? Other things that come to mind are

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-24 Thread Bob Cox
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 15:35:00 -0300, tyler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm trying to burn a copy of Xubuntu as a rescue disk. My laptop (Thinkpad R60) is running Lenny, with KB3 installed. I also have access to a variety of machines running Windows. I have tried no less than a dozen times

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-24 Thread tyler
Michael Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 4:41 PM, tyler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried downloading on three different machines. I just now tried to burn the LinuxMint CD, which failed with the same error. Have you tried running isovfy (from genisoimages) on the

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-24 Thread H.S.
tyler wrote: I've just tried updating to the latest (testing) version of k3b, 1.0.5, and I burnt another coaster. This is very frustrating. Any other suggestions? May be a defective CD writer? When was the last time you burned a disc and it went okay? One way to verify this is to burn the

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-24 Thread tyler
Bob Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 15:35:00 -0300, tyler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: A typical result is burning the CD with KB3, which appears to work, but then complains that the disk image does not match the downloaded ISO when the verification check completes. If I

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-24 Thread Michael Marsh
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:21 PM, tyler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran both the k3b verification and the Xubuntu integrity check on each of the first 6 failed burns, and since they all failed both tests I assumed the k3b test was enough to indicate a disk was bad. But apparently not. Now I just

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-24 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:35 AM, tyler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A typical result is burning the CD with KB3, which appears to work, but then complains that the disk image does not match the downloaded ISO Since you've already verified the ISOs with md5sum, then something may be awry with

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-24 Thread tyler
Michael Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:21 PM, tyler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran both the k3b verification and the Xubuntu integrity check on each of the first 6 failed burns, and since they all failed both tests I assumed the k3b test was enough to indicate a