Tips for passing the media check

[Paul Howarth]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 06 November 2006 16:36, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Indeed, and turning off DMA doesn't always fix the problem either. Alan
>> Cox suggests just not bothering with the media check at all.
>>
> I don't see the need for it if the sha1sums have been checked.  I always skip 
> it.

That checks that you've downloaded the ISO images OK, but doesn't check 
that your media is burned correctly. Best way to do that is to grab the 
data back off the burned media, truncate the resulting file to the same 
length as the original ISO (not always necessary, depends on your 
hardware) and then run the sha1sum on that file.

Paul.