Disk error

[Patrick Dupre]

It looks like that it is a problem with the DVD reader, bit it is bizard
because I can mount the DVD with an installed linux by using the same
reader !


> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 20:19 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 15:00 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>>> sha1sum -c SHA1SUM
>>>> Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso: OK
>>>
>>> All that means is that the ISO file on your hard drive is not corrupted.
>>> It says nothing about the DVD copy.
>>>
>>> poc
>>>
>>>
>> This is what I got:
>>
>>   sha1sum /dev/sr0
>> 780a625141cc355305c9631f08981eb632cac0b9  /dev/sr0
>
> I'm afraid telling us the hash value is of little use. It's either what
> it's supposed to be (compare with the SHA1SUM file) or it isn't. If it
> isn't, the DVD is bad. Rinse and repeat as needed.
>
> Also, was the sha1sum run on the target machine or the source machine?
> It's not clear from your earlier posts whether or not the laptop already
> has a running Lnux system on it. If the check was run on the source
> machine and passed, there could still be a problem with the target
> machine.
>
> Plus you still haven't said if you checked the *media*. The physical
> composition of DVD blanks depends on the manufacturer and not all drives
> work equally well with all brands. http://www.cdfreaks.com/media/ has a
> lot of info on this kind of thing.
>
> poc
>
>

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