Attempting DVD install :Fedora 10 x86_64 missing rpm?

Ernest L. Williams Jr. ernesto at slac.stanford.edu
Mon Jan 5 15:18:02 UTC 2009


Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 13:22 +0200, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote:
>   
>> Disks are Samsung pleomax (Cheapest I could get)
>>     
>
> Not a good decision making methodology.  I find most higher priced discs
> are fine, many medium priced discs to be crap, and all cheap discs to be
> crap.  And beyond buying heavily discounted crap from reject shops,
> there's not a great deal of price difference between decent quality
> discs, it's usually down to buying what I know has worked well
> beforehand.  I'll choose reliability over trying to save twenty cents a
> disc.
>
>   
What disks did you use?  And what about DVD -R versus DVD +R?

> You'll probably get more reliable burns if you do NOT burn discs at
> their top speed, too.
>   
I let k3b select all of the default settings (i.e. auto)

What speed should I burn at? 
Why does anaconda media check not catch a badly burned disk?

-- Ernesto






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