[CALUG] Fedora 12 Live CD doesn't run

[Craig Younkins]

Walt,

Try to verify the burn by hashing /dev/cdrom with the CD inserted.

md5sum fedora.iso
md5sum /dev/cdrom

They should come out to be the same if the burn was successful. This should
also work with sha.

If you get "/dev/cdrom: Input/output error", take a look at my blog
post, Brasero
Or: How I learned to Stop Burning Coasters and Love
K3B<http://cyounkins.blogspot.com/2009/02/brasero-or-how-i-learned-to-stop.html>as
the problem may be with the burn mode not being DAO.

Best of luck to you!

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On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Walt Smith <waltechmail at yahoo.com> wrote:

> HI,
>
> Wonder if anyone else tried this?
> I D/L Fedora 12 Live CD in order to first, take a look
> at the first screens and operation, and then do an install basic
> from the CD.
>
> This is the gnome version since theres no "KDE" in the iso filename.
>
> I plug in the CD to 2 different desktops, and a laptop.
> The basic result in all three is the same: sit there for 20 minutes
> and basically do nothing w/ one exception.
>
> Basically, one desktop box will get to some window asking for full name
> and to create username and password.  After that, it again
> sits forever, with a very occasional CD light blink. ( 2.6 gig, 512meg)
>
> The older laptop (800 Mhz, 256 megs) stops with printed error messages...
> something about bad "fb"..
>
> It seems really odd that to bootup a live CD that it would ask for
> a persons name and to create a username.
>
> now, I got the iso, and I have not done a checksum check before..
> never needed to... so I  *think * I did this right...
>
> I got the right kind of messages (??):
>
> ==============
> [waltech at waltech Download]$ curl
> https://fedoraproject.org/static/fedora.gpg | gpg --import
>  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
>  Current
>                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
>  Speed
> 100  9323  100  9323    0     0   2648      0  0:00:03  0:00:03 --:--:--
>  5995
> gpg: key 4EBFC273: "Fedora (10) <fedora at fedoraproject.org>" not changed
> gpg: key 0B86274E: "Fedora (10 testing) <fedora at fedoraproject.org>" not
> changed
> gpg: key D22E77F2: "Fedora (11) <fedora at fedoraproject.org>" not changed
> gpg: key 57BBCCBA: "Fedora (12) <fedora at fedoraproject.org>" not changed
> gpg: key 217521F6: "Fedora EPEL <epel at fedoraproject.org>" not changed
> gpg: Total number processed: 5
> gpg:              unchanged: 5
>
> [waltech at waltech Download]$ gpg --verify *-CHECKSUMgpg: Signature made Mon
> 09 Nov 2009 02:34:35 PM EST using RSA key ID 57BBCCBA
> gpg: Good signature from "Fedora (12) <fedora at fedoraproject.org>"
> gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
> gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the
> owner.
> Primary key fingerprint: 6BF1 78D2 8A78 9C74 AC0D  C63B 9D1C C348 57BB CCBA
>
> [waltech at waltech Download]$ sha256sum -c *-CHECKSUM
> Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso: OK
>
> ===================================
>
> While I don't think there's anything I can do to fix it,
> at least I can report that I tried it, and the result.
>
> I'll try to get a "standard install" DVD..
>
> thx,
> Walt...........
>
>
>
>
>
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