I've been trying to install the latest version of Fedora Core 3 the last couple of days to no avail. It's not that there is something wrong with me (well, no more than normal). It's that I can't seem to burn the media without errors. I did the checksum on the iso files so I "know" those are okay. When I actually try and burn any disks they fail the media test. *sigh*
I tried burning disks at slower speeds, on a different computer using a different cd burning sw, doing the verification on a different computer. No success yet. The only common thing so far is that I have been using CD's from the same spindle. Maybe they are all (?!?) bad, I don't know. So right now I am trying one of Laura's blank CD's. I'm burning it at 4x so it's taking a while for one disk...
I'll probably borrow the CD's from a co-worker of mine, but I'd like to be able to figure out why I am not able to burn these disks without troubles. Not happy about it.
Update: It seemed that it was a problem with the CD's. The BAD CD's are: Mitsumi. Bad, bad, bad... The CD's that did work are: TDK, which if you google them come up with the first hit as CD Media World - TDK Inferior Quality CD-R's. Too funny...
Spindle discs are crap. I used to get too many "coasters" using them. They also degrade faster than more "expensive" discs, meaning your data has a shorter shelf life.
ReplyDeleteI use Verbatim discs and they work great.