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Tim
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Sat Feb 16 08:13:27 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 16:30 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Too confusing for new users. It would need to cover other operating
> systems, offer links to Windows md5sum utilities and so on. And it
> doesn't protect from media errors.
>
> Fedora has a built-in media verification step, which everybody, who
> does not know how to verify downloaded ISO images and burnt DVDs,
> ought to use:
>
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f8/en_US/sn-verifying-media.html
>
> Don't skip it if you haven't verified burnt discs with a tool like
> k3b.
The problem with that is twofold:
If you've downloaded garbage, you'll burn garbage, which you won't
detect until you've wasted a disc or three. A simpler process to check
your download before burning it is important.
There's that long-standing bug that some drives will mess up when you do
the media check. You should, still, do some sort of burnt disc
verification, but this needs improving, too.
--
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