Installation of Fedora 7 no go

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Tue Jun 5 12:49:24 UTC 2007


Alan Cox wrote:

>> > Bad CD media it appears
>> 
>> If it were bad media, why does it pass the disk
>> checks?
> 
> Sometimes you will find a disc can be read linearly but seeking around
> causes problems. The "Medium error" came from the CD drive itself and it
> not us decided there was a medium error on sector 1164.

That's interesting.
I haven't had any problems with F-7,
but with FC-6 I got CD read errors in several cases
even though the disk passed the media check.

It would have been nice in those cases
if one could have re-tried the read
(eg by taking the disk out and putting it back in),
as one can on Mr Gates' system,
but unfortunately Fedora seems to require you
to start again from scratch if there is a bad read.


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