Problem with DVD iso for Core 3

[W. Guy Thomas]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 13:42 -0500, Doug Maurer wrote:
> > same here.
> > Sometimes I get can't recognize CDROM drive, sometimes it's ok.
> > I was able to have the booted image do a checksum check of the dvd and it
> >    passed ok.
> > It was ever so helpful - on a few occasions to start the update,
> >    remove old kernel's, install the new one, then Die in the middle on
> >    some random rpm with a cdrom read error.  If you tried 
> >    to continue the process, after one  or two tries it would read that package
> >    and then fail on another.  Eventually it would lock up the whole system.
> > I was previously running FC1 and FC1 had no issues reading or writing dvd's,
> > so I don't think the hardware suddenly broke.
> > 
> > steve
> >    
> > 
> After installing fc3 Wednesday I wanted a second copy of FC3 cd's, so I
> put a blank cd in my dvd/cdrom burner and launched k3b. Only one
> problem, k3b didn't see a cdrom. I check the /media directory and no
> cdrecorder. I was like ok let me reboot with option ide=nodma. This time
> I had cdrecorder, but one of the errors I got from k3b was to check
> permissions on /dev/hd#, my cdrom was on hdd, and it had rwxr_xr_x
> on /dev/hdd I chmod 777 on hdd and k3b was happy again.
> 
> strange little gremlins running around   
> -- 
> Doug Maurer
> doug at dmaurer.net
> Linux user #299439
> 

I believe that is the UDEV error. Go to the FC3 release notes on the web
site and it has a link to the latest UDEV.

hope that helps.

-- 
=Guy
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