Trouble Burning Core 5 CDs

[Bjorgen T. Eatinger]

I am trying to create the 5 CDs necessary for a new Fedora Core 5 installation, and can never get a good burn.  The media check always fails, during installation.

Once thing I noticed is that the ISO images appear to be a bit larger than 650MB, which is the recordable size of the CDs I am using.  I will try 700MB CDs, but I wonder why the images would be distributed to be over 650MB, and if this is really the issue.

I tried burning the CDs using 3 different burners on 3 different workstations, with the same results.  Is there a recommended media manufacturer?  I am burning at the slowest speed (16x) possible as well.  

I have never had so much trouble burning CDs before!  In fact, this got so crazy, that I finally gave up and purchased a Fedora book on Core 2 which contained the CDs, and they worked perfect.  But I am now running 3 versions behind.  This has been an extremely frustrating experience, to say the least.

This is so much trouble, that I wish there was a company that produced and sold a commercial Fedora release on CDs.

Sincerely, Bjorgen T. Eatinger
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