On Tuesday, Aug 17th 2004 at 07:44 -0400, quoth pete snider: =>On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 22:56, Steven W. Orr wrote: =>> On Monday, Aug 16th 2004 at 17:44 -0400, quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: =>> =>> =>On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, at 4:46pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =>> =>> Does anyone have any idea how I can debug this problem? I can boot from =>> =>> other CDs, but FC2 just stops dead. =>> => =>> => It's unclear from your message how far it gets before it "stops dead". =>> =>Does it display any messages at all? =>> =>> Absolutely zip. The screen stops dead black as soon as I hit return. => =>Have you check the md5sum of the CD to verify that it was written =>properly? => =>-pete The checksum of what I downloaded matches with what the checksum is supposed to be. But I'm suspicious of what actually got onto the cd. The file i downloaded was FC2-i386-disc1.iso and then I sucked it back out of the cd using dd if=/dev/cdrom of=FC2-i386-disc1B.iso 515 > l FC2-i386-disc1.iso FC2-i386-disc1B.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 steveo steveo 667529216 May 13 05:41 FC2-i386-disc1.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 steveo steveo 667559936 Aug 16 23:20 FC2-i386-disc1B.iso 516 >
So right off the bat, I suspect I might have a problem. I used xcdroast to make the cds and now I'm not sure I trust them. What commandline tool should I use to burn them correctly? -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
