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[ILUG] hea fc6 iso *was* corrupt

[ILUG] hea fc6 iso *was* corrupt

John A. Kinsella John.Kinsella at ul.ie
Mon Nov 27 14:55:17 GMT 2006


Hi Ian & all.

Different brands..

I used
cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -data /usr/local/BODGE/FC-6-i386-disc1.iso

friend used a desktop util (from Mandiva Linux)

I'm baffled..

John

Ian Moroney said in an email sent on 27/11/06 14:32 that:
> If you burned the iso's to cd/dvd maybe the media is bad or it was a bad
> burn? If the media was the same brand, see if you get hold of a
> different brand of cd/dvdr media. 
> 
> 
> Thank and Kind Regards, 
>  
> Ian Moroney
> Field Engineer
>  
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-bounces at linux.ie] On Behalf Of
> John A. Kinsella
> Sent: 27 November 2006 14:27
> To: tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
> Cc: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] hea fc6 iso *was* corrupt
> 
> Tim,
> that's very strange.
> 
> What makes it stranger is that a friend also downloaded from esat site.
> 
> Both of us ran sha1sum & got no errors.
> 
> Both of us - on different cdrom's on different pc's in different offices
> - got the same error when the installer ran the media test.
> 
> And when I ignored the error message the install failed!
> 
> Could it be a network glitch???
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John (now downloading from a neighbouring island)
> 
> Timothy Murphy said in an email sent on 27/11/06 14:01 that:
> 
>>On Monday 27 November 2006 09:39, John A. Kinsella wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I went ahead with the install - it bombed after a few minutes 
>>>reporting that rpm's were corrupt..
>>
>>
>>I downloaded FC-6 from heanet, and it works perfectly well.
>>
> 
> 

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