Burning ISO to CD

[Leon Stringer]

Thanks for your reply. I'll try moving the file. In case it comes up 
again: I downloaded the ISO using FTP from my local mirror.

Jim Cornette wrote:

> Leon Stringer wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is slightly off topic but I'm having severe problems burning the 
>> FC2 ISOs to CD with FC2t3.
>>
>> A conservative guess is that 1 in 5 CDs are working OK the rest are 
>> landfill and this is obviously frustrating my move to FC2.
>>
>> I'm burning with Nautilus' "Write to CD" option (i.e. right clicking 
>> on the ISO file) and I've checked the MD5sum of the ISO beforehand.
>>
>> I've tried 3 different drives (Samsung SM-332B, SM-352B and an MSI  
>> 52x CD-R drive) and tried Maximum Available and 2x speed and both 
>> fail. (I'm checking the md5sum of /dev/cdrom and this comes up with 
>> the wrong number and an error message)
>>
>> The media are Sony 700MB CD-Rs. The platform is Intel 845GERG2 board 
>> with a P4 CPU.
>>
>> So: am I doing anything wrong? Should Nautilus be able to write 
>> reliably? Are my drives or media no good? Is this a known problem in 
>> FC2t3? Will I ever be able to install FC2?!
>>
>> I'm very grateful for any pointers in troubleshooting this,
>>
>> Leon...
>>
>>
>
> I burned the ISOs on an FC1 system. It worked with the method that you 
> described. I downloaded the images via bittorrent. The disc had minor 
> errors with a false start bringing up the GUI installer initially. It 
> then had an error reading information for one of the selected rpms. It 
> did read the rpm after pressing return for a retry.
>
> I am wondering if you also downloaded via bittorrent or retrieved the 
> images either by http or ftp? If you downloaded via bittorrent, I'm 
> wondering if the problem is with the downloaded file and fragmentation?
>
> Someone mentioned that if you copy your downloaded images to a 
> different location, it will lower the fragmentation level of the file. 
> Maybe the iso image is too fragmented. If you copied one image to a 
> different directory, then deleted the original file, then copied the 
> other files to different locations, deleting the original downloaded 
> image, if it would help with the final image on CD?
>
> As far as burning the ISOs on FC2, they work. I ftp transferred the 
> iso images retrieved on my FC1 (bittorent retrieved) to my newly 
> installed FC2 installation. I burned them the same way as you described.
>
> The short of it. Transfer the images to a different system or move the 
> files to lower file fragmentation and try to burn again.
>
> Jim
>