Andrew Stallard wrote: > Well, I tried burning the DVD images using magic ISO, but my driver would > not recognize them, check dvd's on another system to help place fault. > so, I switched to the CD's. I managed to burn the images using these. > > Now, upon trying to do the installation, it failed. Upon using the > mediacheck feature, the first CD was found to have errors. did you have a good checksum on '*.iso' files when you downloaded them? if ok, try burning of 1st cd at a slower speed to see if you get a good checksum. when you get a good burn, use that speed to burn rest of cd's. > (I checked the next three disks, they had problem too according to the > test.) However, upon looking at the contents of the disks, I saw no > obviously corrupted files. how do you know what is good and what is bad? text, yes. binary, only if you mount a known good iso as a loop mount and compare file by file. or, you have check sums for each individual file. > Did anybody else have this problem? no. i run checksum on downloads and use high quality blanks. > In addition, I live in China now, and I buy a local brand of disks--Banana > Digital. Could this brand be particularly prone to bugs? low quality, ie, low cost, dvd/cd blanks will/can give you bad burns. bugs are a whole different thing. solutions: burn at lower speed or buy high quality blanks. hth. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****