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Trouble Burning Fedora Core 3 CDs

OK, I've gotten the Fedora Core 3 ISOs. Burned them onto CDs using my yum-updated Fedora Core 2's Nautilus "right click on the ISO and select Write to CD" method. And they all failed the pre-installation media check:

+-------------------| Media Check Result |---------------------+
|                                                              |
|    The media check of the image:                             |
|                                                              |
|    Fedora Core 3 disc 1                                      |
|                                                              |
|    is complete, and the result is: FAIL.                     |
|                                                              |
|    The image which was just tested has errors.  This could   |
|    be due to a corrupt download or a bad disk.  If           |
|    applicable, please clean the disc and try again.  If      |
|    this test continues to fail you should not continue       |
|    the install.                                              |
|                                                              |
|                                                              |
|                          +----+                              |
|                          | OK |                              |
|                          +----+                              |
|                                                              |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+

The ISOs are complete and with valid md5sums. I haven't burned any CDs since I upgraded from FC1 to FC2. I'll ftp the ISOs to my Windows XP machine and try my luck there tomorrow.

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on November 10, 2004 12:00:06 AM CST #


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Re: Trouble Burning Fedora Core 3 CDs

Comment from James McMurry on November 10, 2004 1:09:29 PM CST #
A handy program for burning ISO images in Windows XP is cdburn.exe from the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools. It's a command line utility to burn an image, optionally blanking a CD-RW while you're at it. I've used it with no problems on Win XP Pro. FYI.
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Re: Trouble Burning Fedora Core 3 CDs

Comment from tetsuo kogawa on July 19, 2005 12:21:27 PM CDT #
In my experience, most of the troubles were caused by older Bios or memory (especially mixing different types of memories). Just changing the memories solved the problem sometimes. Please try.
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Re: Trouble Burning Fedora Core 3 CDs

Comment from Anonymous on November 10, 2004 2:18:15 PM CST #

Thanks. I used the CD writing program that came with the machine. And the CDs do check out OK now.

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Re: Trouble Burning Fedora Core 3 CDs

Comment from Anonymous on November 30, 2004 1:56:11 AM CST #
I have the same message while I am burning Fedora core 2 and 3 DVDs, but not CDs. Any way to get around. I tried four or five DVD disc, all failed, while md3sums are fine
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Re: Trouble Burning Fedora Core 3 CDs

Comment from Chris on February 22, 2005 8:39:23 AM CST #
At the boot prompt, try:
linux ide=nodma
This worked for me.

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