Disk 2 and 3 Corupt

[Luke]

Ok. I gave up on the Disks and went for the DVD ISO.

Using B's Recorder I created a bootable disk from the image.

The contents of the disk are:
BOOTCTG.BIN  BOOTIMG.BIN  FC-5-i386-DVD.iso

The sha1sum of the ISO on the disk looks good:

$ sha1sum FC-5-i386-DVD.iso
ed9a852cf77250c3ae111c621d350af5c0b0a29b *FC-5-i386-DVD.iso

When I put the disk in and try and boot from it I am taken to a grub command 
prompt. No istallation.

I have set my bios to boot from a CD. Does this indicate a problem with the 
disk?

Thanks,

Luke



Luke at wintermute /cygdrive/e
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Stevens" <rstevens at vitalstream.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: Disk 2 and 3 Corupt


> On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 16:26 -0400, Luke wrote:
>> I don't image I am the only person to bring this up, but can someone 
>> point
>> me to a place where I can download discs 2 and 3 for the Fedora Core that 
>> do
>> not contain corrupt packages?
>>
>> I have downloaded both from here:
>>
>> ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Fedora/core/5/i386//iso/
>>
>> I have tried downloading and burning to disk twice. Both times disk 2 and 
>> 3
>> were currupt (i.e.: Did not pass the integrity test, when I tried to 
>> install
>> anyway, was unable to read from disk 2).
>
> I use the kernel.org archives.  Try this link:
>
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/5/i386/iso/
>
> and download away.  Also look carefully at the content of the SHA1SUM
> file.  After you download the .iso images, run:
>
> sha1sum name-of-iso-file
>
> The number that spits out SHOULD MATCH EXACTLY what the SHA1SUM file
> says.  If not, you have a bad download.  If the SHA1 sums match, the
> .iso file is clean, and you're having issues burning them to CDs.
>
> NOTE: CD2 and CD3 of the FC5 distribution REALLY fill up a CD.  Make
> sure you're using name brand 700MB CDRs (I lean towards Memorex and
> TDK) and that you do NOT burn them at maximum speed.  For example, if
> you have a CDR drive that can burn at 48x, try burning at 24x or even
> 12x:
>
> cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 speed=24 name-of-iso.iso
> cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 speed=12 name-of-iso.iso
>
> The reason is: CDs are written from the center of the disc out toward
> the edge in a long, spiral track (like an old vinyl LP record, but in
> reverse).  The faster the disc spins (to give you that higher read or
> burn rate), the more likely the disc will "flutter" and the problem gets
> worse the farther from the center you are.  Keeping the speed down will
> reduce the flutter and give you a better chance at getting a good burn.
>
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