is Fedora 12 alpha for x86_64 burnable and usable?

[Robert L Cochran]

Try cleaning your drive with an optical drive cleaning kit. Such kits do 
help. It could be that the laser device in the drive has dust on it.

If that doesn't work, check if you can boot from a USB stick.

If you can't boot from a USB stick, then replace the optical drive. It 
is not so expensive as it may seem.

Thanks

Bob



On 10/05/2009 06:44 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>    i downloaded Fedora-12-Alpha-x86_64-DVD.iso, it seems to be fine,
> "isovfy" looks good, the sha256sum checksum matches, it's "-o loop"
> mountable, but i've tried twice to use k3b to burn it to DVD and the
> result is a DVD that *visually* looks like it's had something burned
> to it but two different machines claim that the DVD is blank and
> refuse to mount it.
>
>    i've never had this difficulty before with downloading and burning
> fedora DVDs.  thoughts?
>
> rday
>
> p.s.  not surprisingly, i can't boot from a "burned" DVD since it
> simply appears blank.
>
> p.p.s.  for the first time, i'm using a different brand of DVD --
> imation DVD+R.  i hesitate to blame the media but ... who knows?
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