Troubles getting F9

Rick Stevens ricks at nerd.com
Mon May 19 17:28:45 UTC 2008


Beartooth wrote:
> 
> 	I've downloaded the F9 DVD twice so far (with more downloads 
> running on two machines, one using gwget, one bittorrent), once with 
> Opera and once with I disremember what.
> 
> 	Both K3B and Brasero have crashed repeatedly while trying to burn 
> them; but I've got three DVDs that *look* like they contain F9 -- if you 
> put one in a running machine and examine the content display.
> 
> 	I've tried each DVD with a laptop (T30 thinkpad) and a PC, both 
> now running F8, installed from my home-burned media; the PC (an old ASUS) 
> goes back to about FC2 or 3.
> 
> 	Neither machine has been able to boot from any of them.
> 
> 	Either I'm doing something wrong with woeful consistency -- or 
> I've actually run into a corrupted source, haven't I? (They have all come 
> from my nearest mirror, mirror.cc.vt.edu, which is two or three miles 
> from here.) 
> 
> 	Much more probably, of course, it's me. Any guesses what I could 
> be fouling up?

First, run an sha1sum against your .iso files, compare that against the
contents of the SHA1SUM file and verify you got them uncorrupted.  Once
you're sure you got them cleanly, THEN you try burning them.  I use
good ol' growisofs using

	growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=/path/to/.iso
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