burning woes

[KE7FEG]

Maybe wrong, but sounds like the d/l was corrupted to
me. Try downloading again and 'yes' to overwrite. Try
copying from another web location in case somehow that
source was/is corrupted.

--- bmike101 at cox.net wrote:

> okay.... so I put the download and the md5sum in the
> same 
> directory. 
> >  
> root at 1[mepis3.4]# md5sum SimplyMEPIS_3.4-3.md5sum -c
> 
> root at 1[mepis3.4]# 
>  
> Is this correct? 
> I then burned the ISO and after the MD5 check it
> goes 
> wa-waaa and a k3b says: 
>  
> 	an error occured while reading from file <iso> 
>  
> Any ideas how I should get it to burn? The burn
> speed was 
> 1x and the burn program used was cdrecord 2.1a19.
> This is 
> on the livecd so I can't upgade it (already tried).
> Should 
> I change the weriting mode? The options are AUTO,
> DAO, 
> TAO, and RAW. I used AUTO. 
>  
> > From: Gerard Snitselaar <snits at snitselaar.org> 
> > Date: 2006/02/11 Sat PM 06:43:44 PST 
> > To: Main PLUG discussion list 
> <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us> 
> > Subject: Re: burning woes 
> >  
> > I forgot to add another way to check it is to use
> the -c 
> flag and  
> > a file containing the md5sum you are supposed to
> check 
> against. 
> > Here is a quick little example: 
> >  
> > snits at newton:/home/snits/proj/c=>ls 
> > hanoi*  hanoi.c 
> > snits at newton:/home/snits/proj/c=>md5sum hanoi > 
> hanoi.md5 
> > snits at newton:/home/snits/proj/c=>md5sum -c
> hanoi.md5 
> > hanoi: OK 
> > snits at newton:/home/snits/proj/c=>rm -f hanoi 
> > snits at newton:/home/snits/proj/c=>gcc -O3 -o hanoi 
> hanoi.c 
> > snits at newton:/home/snits/proj/c=>md5sum -c
> hanoi.md5 
> > hanoi: FAILED 
> > md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 computed checksum did NOT
> match 
> > snits at newton:/home/snits/proj/c=>cat hanoi.md5 
> > 359935d45f69fcb2fd0afd882211062b  hanoi 
> >  
> >  
> > On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 17:59 -0800,
> bmike101 at cox.net 
> wrote: 
> > > Well, I downloaded a simply mepis ISO and burned
> it  
> and    
> > > it runs grub (I believe?) and then tells me that
> it 
> found   
> > > simplymepis then  it says :   
> > > 	hds: tray open   
> > > 	end_request: I/O error on device......   
> > > then it also says:   
> > > 	cloop=error -5 uncompressing block <block
> numbers>   
> > >    
> > > Does this sound like a burn error or a corrupt
> down 
> load?  
> > > I would check the download but I do not know how
> to do 
> the  
> > > MD5 thing. Would someone care to inform me how
> to use 
> it??  
> > >  
> > >
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