Failed MediaCheck

David Hoffman dhoffman2004 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 26 14:51:52 UTC 2005


On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:16:15 -0800 (PST), Jared Schrag
<jaredschrag at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I downloaded the Fedora Core 3 *.iso CD images successfully from the various mirror sites and
> successfully ran the sumchecker md5sum on each file -- all were successfully checked.
> 
> I then proceeded to burn each image to CD using Ahead Nero 5, it has a function to burn discs
> specifically from image files.
> 
> I then followed the instructions to very the integrity of each of the CDs I created by booting
> from disc 1, and at the boot: prompt, I ran the command "linux mediacheck"; however, all 5 discs
> (4 installation discs and the rescue disc) failed the mediacheck command.
> 
> Has anybody else experience the same problem?  Shall I continue using these CDs anyway, since the
> original files I downloaded all passed the checksum test?
> 
> Thank you for your input.
> 

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