checking sh1asum of Fedora Core 6 Installation DVD without boot
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed Nov 8 05:02:11 UTC 2006
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 22:31, Tim wrote:
>On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 16:50 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Your file may have extra bytes appended to the end of it because the
>> kernel does not detect the end of the written data (this is what
>> causes mediacheck errors in the first place). This extra data causes
>> the checksum to be calculated incorrectly
>
>That's the second fault related to checking install discs that ought to
>get fixed, rather than worked around. Hasn't anybody worked out why it
>doesn't do it correctly?
I've previously described how to get around that, and its as simple as
what, maybe 4 additional lines of code in the media checker to fix it once
and for all time?
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