Re: potato i386 CD's made with debian-cd **bad file???

[<paulwade@greenbush.com>]

Try reading it with the dd command. This will tell you if it got whacked
during the record. The best device for me seems to be the CDR drive. I
have a pile of CDROM drives that are marginal. Generally, a truly bad CDR
won't pass a full readback on my HP recorders. You need isosize to get the
count argument for dd or it will likely give you an error at the end.

Have you tried loop mounting the image file? This will quickly tell you if
you have a valid iso9660 image from debian-cd (actually mkhybrid). Mount
it and check all md5sums.

On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Jim Westveer wrote:

> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 16:39:48 -0800 (PST)
> From: Jim Westveer <jwest@netnw.com>
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> Subject: potato i386 CD's made with debian-cd **bad file???
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> Humm,
> 
> I was just going over a i386 potato CD that was made with
> the current CVS copy of debian-cd.
> 
> When I put the CD in a host, and then try to read some of
> the text files on the top level directory, they read just fine.
> 
> BUT
> 
> When I try to display (either under Linux, or W9x) any of the
> text files under /doc  or  /install/boot.bat  or the README
> files under /tools   I get a READ IO error.
> 
> Humm, the files look ok.  They seem to report a reasonable
> file size.  Curiously enough the loadlin.exe rawrite2.exe
> fips.exe  will not execute under w9x either.
> 
> Could be just me.  Might not.  Does anyone else get these
> strange errors on a currently burned i386 potato CD ?
> 
> 
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