Hi
I downloaded the FC4T2 dvd and md5 checked the iso .. identical md5sum, fine so far. Then
I used K3B to burn the image .. I use a BENQ DVD writer under FC3.
After booting on a new machine when I did a media check it failed. Anyway I went ahead
and installed it and it installed fine, no issues at all. Out of curiosity I popped in
the disc into the writer and issued a md5sum /dev/hda and got a value that was different
from the iso md5 .. I popped in the disc on the other machine and did a md5sum /dev/hda
again and got an identical value. But this value is different from the published iso
md5.
ANy reasons why this is different (thought the values should be identical) .. maybe same
reason the Fedora install media check fails but installs correctly without issues.
Regards
Srini
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Since the iso checked out I assume something happened during the burn
process, especially since since both the media check and a direct
md5sum of the disc don't match the expected.
md5sums do fail on even a few different bytes. Usually buffer
underruns are detectable when burning, so that probably isn't it. It's
possible that no package you installed used those corrupted bytes. Or
it could be that some file you installed is corrupted.
Maybe verify all your rpm packages with "rpm -Vva". It'll take a while
but should check much of what you installed.