Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (845 mails)

[Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Mon, 5 May 2008, Jonathan Pryor wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 23:05 +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 May 2008, Jonathan Pryor wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 21:53 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
 
> > > > The Monday 2008-05-05 at 13:23 -0400, Jonathan Pryor wrote:
> > > > If both test say it is bad, then it is bad. Al coasters have the same 
> > > > incorrect checksum, or each a different one?
> > >
> > > They all seem to have a different sector where they fail.
> > >
> > > Which implies (to me) that my DVD media is at fault, not the writers.
> >
> > You can try 
> >   mkdir xx
> >   cd xx
> >   ln <where-your-ISO-is>/openSUSE-11.0-Beta2-DVD-i386.iso
> >   rsync -vvv 
> > rsync://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/11.0-Beta2/iso/dvd/openSUSE-11.0-Beta2-DVD-i386.iso
> >  .
> >
> > and watch on stdout which block(s) get refetched.
> > I don't have the originating mail present, so change i386 against x86_64 
> > if appropriate.
>
> By "media" I didn't mean my .iso file (which matches the MD5SUM
> previously posted on this list), I mean my actual, physical blank DVD-R
> media.
>
> If all the DVDs failed consistently on the same sector, AND the MD5SUM
> didn't match, then the ISO would be at fault.  Neither is true.
>
> So either both of my DVD writers are bad (and writing bad DVDs in
> inconsistent ways), or my spindle is full of bad DVD-Rs.  I'm hoping
> it's the DVD-Rs.

So you should try to burn with lower speed than possible (good practice 
here).

Or just do not burn at all, but copy boot/i386/loader/{initrd,linux} into 
the to-installed-system, install it as a boot target, give network access 
to the ISO file (http, ftp or nfs) and try "install from network".


Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@xxxxxxx, em@xxxxxxx)