FC4 media check?

[posterboy]

I did the torrent thing and got iso's for FC4. I don't know how to use the SHA1 stuff, MD5, I understand, but not this. I burned the CD's using cdrecord -v, and it reported out just fine. However, every disc fails the media check. What's likely to be the issue with this, please?

OK, nevermind the part about the SHA sums, I puzzled that out, and that checks out just fine. Now, back to the original issue, media check fails. I used CD read-only for this, on known good media, cdrecord reported out both buffer and fifo did just fine. what could be the problem?
TIA, Ray

[sbassett]

I have ripped this off of the Unofficial Fedora FAQ

Q: The installer's media check says all my CDs are bad!
A: There is a bug in the kernel which causes the media check to say all CDs are bad, on some systems. To do a successful media check, do the following:

1. At the installer prompt, type:

linux mediacheck nocddma

2. Run the media check on your CDs/DVD.
3. Reboot, and run the installer normally.

Hope this is the only problem.

[posterboy]

AHA!!!!!!!!! Thank you, sir, anxious to try it. I'll let you (all of us) know.

[posterboy]

RATS!! In my case, this was no help at all. All the CD's still report "FAIL" Oh, well, thanks, anyway.