FC4 Not installing (DVD)

[Austin Isler]

Thomas Taylor wrote:

>On Thursday 16 June 2005 15:10, Austin Isler wrote:
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>>Michael A. Peters wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 14:48 -0700, Austin Isler wrote:
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>>>>Hello guys and gals.
>>>>I was also one of the people who were experiencing slow downloads on BT,
>>>>but I stuck with it anyways. 3 days later and I have it. Now here is the
>>>>problem. Right away I noticed that the md5sum did not match the one in
>>>>the text file that came with the iso. I said "what the hell" and burned
>>>>it to DVD anyways. Now when I restarted my computer to allow it to boot
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>>>>from the DVD, it acted like nothing was on the DVD and just when
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>>>>straight to booting my HD. Also when the DVD is in the drive it gives me
>>>>error messages when its searching for volumes, and then when KDE boots,
>>>>the PC freezes. It all seems quite strange, after all I downloaded the
>>>>same iso as everyone else.
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>>>>Austin
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>>>the file has an sha1sum, not an md5sum.
>>>use sha1sum to verify the file.
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>>>How did you burn it? A common mistake is to not burn the iso, but
>>>instead burn a CD/DVD that has the iso file on it.
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>>In k3b I used the option to burn DVD image (Tools -> DVD -> Burn DVD ISO
>>Image)
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>>Austin
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>Instead of using k3b try this command line: 
> growisofs --dvd-compat -Z /dev/cdwriter=filename.iso
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>Tom
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I did it your way. Guess what? It worked. Thank you.


Austin