[102067] in RedHat Linux List
CD coasters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Myer)
Tue Dec 1 09:04:16 1998
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 09:03:20 -0500 (EST)
From: "Kevin Myer" <kevin_myer@elanco.k12.pa.us>
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Hi,
This is a wee bit off topic but I've been trying to make RedHat CD's with
minimal success. I'm fully aware of the process involved - its not that I
can't install from the CD's or file permissions are wrong. I just can't
seem to burn a CD that matches with the original image.
My setup is:
Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card
Quantum Viking SCA 4.5Gb SCSI-3 Drive
Ricoh 6201S CD-RW
128Mb RAM
sole user of this machine.
I bought 50 CD-R media (fairly decent Ricoh quality media) and 3 Ricoh
CD-RW media. So far, I've burnt about 10 CD-R - only one of those CD's
has passed the 'cmp' test. I've tried burning with Xcdroast as a front
end to cdrecord and mkisofs, I've tried burning from the command line and
I've tried many different versions of cdrecord. I've also tried using
BurnIT (but it still has bugs).
My machine should definitely have the power to turn out decent CD's - when
I burn them, I most of the time just let it sit there and burn. I'm the
sole user of the machine, there aren't that many other processes running
and I can't figure this one out.
Then again, perhaps its a bug in 'cmp' or something. THe disks look ok
when mounted, they boot fine, they move along in the install fine but I'm
reluctant to try and install for fear that I'll get so far and something
will be corrupted and will hose my install.
If I'm not being clear, the specific problem I get is when I run 'cmp' to
compare the CD with the CD image, I'm always getting an error message that
"Files differ on block XXXX".
Thanks for any help or ideas,
Kevin
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Kevin M. Myer
Technical Services Specialist
ELANCO School District
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