[CALUG] (solvd) Fedora 12 Live CD doesn't run

[Walt Smith]

Thanks Craig.

I needed to burn the CD at a much slower burn rate than
"maximum".  I selected 8X.

You were most astute.
I was getting input/output error after some md5sum time went by
( on 2 boxes) on the CD (I could see the files were all there 
though using file manager).

I wasn't sure how to check the actual CD media.
The gpg etc stuff needed to be all in the same dir.
but I couldn't do that on the media!! So your md5sum 
was the solution.

got to the point of trees and no forest because of other
side issues .


The inital F12 screen on one box looks better than F10 did.
F10 went to high res mode (LiveCD) , but the screen was scrunched
into unusabilty.  F12 is hi res, but everything (icons etc) is as it
should be.

FYI- These are personal use boxes:  backup #1 lost it's OS a 
few weeks ago and I was waiting to install F12 on it.  Backup box
#2 ( 667Mhz) had a virgin F9 that I got to work well with the burn.
Main box F10 runs good unless I try to burn:  

has a problem ( Bugbuddy) and locks up, requiring
a reboot if I try a iso write.  Must have something to do with
a lot of partial updates, or the burner went bad while sitting.
Nope, can't umount CD rom, nor kill any processes to get it to
unlock and the hard disk stays agitated.   


TMI ??  But thanks anyway!!


Walt........


--- On Sun, 11/22/09, Craig Younkins <cyounkins at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Craig Younkins <cyounkins at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CALUG] Fedora 12 Live CD doesn't run
> To: waltechmail at yahoo.com
> Cc: calug at unknownlamer.org
> Date: Sunday, November 22, 2009, 11:59 AM
> 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
> 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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