On growisofs, burning bad (install) disks, and "mediacheck"...

[Philip Prindeville]

Peter Boy wrote:

>Am Montag, den 29.08.2005, 11:32 -0600 schrieb Philip Prindeville:
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>>It would be nice if "growisofs" had a --verify option to read back
>>the data written to the media to ensure that the burn was good, and
>>to report failure if it wasn't.
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>If you could happily use a GUI instead of the CLI k3b as delivered with
>Fedora makes this work for you.
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Eh?  I am using the GUI...  The nautilus app.  I point at FC3-i386.iso on my
desktop, right-click, and select "write to disc".

>>Also, can we add a script to accomplish the check that booting "linux
>>mediacheck" does to the disk so that the media can be checked from
>>a running system (i.e. the same system one just burned the CD/DVD
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>Would be great, indeed. Perhaps you should make RFE in bugzilla? (there
>is no appropriate component available, I suppose, therefore against
>Fedora)
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Ok... working on it.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=167036

Used nautilus-cd-burner as the component, since that's how I'm burning 
disks.


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>>Supposedly that system will have had all of its CD dma and 32-bit
>>(non)compatibility issues worked out (which typically isn't the case
>>for the system you're trying to do the install onto).
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>Did you manage to work it out? What did you do? I'm getting constantly
>verification errors (FC3 and FC4), but the burning is (in most) cases
>ok.
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Nope.  Still spinning my wheels.  See my posting from last week about
being unable to find the driver (yes, but which driver is missing?  and for
what?)...

-Philip


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