On Thursday 16 January 2003 18:45, Buchan Milne wrote: > Götz Waschk wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2003, 19:04:37 Uhr MET, schrieb Buchan Milne: > >>To know whether your CDs are ok before you format? > > > > So you want to run a rpm -K *rpm before starting to install anything? > > This shouldn't be too hard to add to the installer. > > Something like that might be sufficient, but RH checks the whole disk > pretty early on, so any issues with the installer that could be due to a > bad burn/download are detected as early as possible. > > I think it would be worthwhile to at least check the packages required > by basesystem, but it is easy to get a failed install if other packages > are corrupt. > > A non-default option to check the whole disk would be useful. > > Buchan
Isn't that to late. Shouldn't md5sum be run before burning?
