[Grml] Re: Grml Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7

[Kevin Jones]

Hello, Has anyone experimented with grml in colinux? I would think that 
would be a great idea like grml2hd but in colinux
colinux.org


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>    1. Re: RC 1.1 troubles (ignore last post) (C.M. Brannon)
>    2. Re: RC 1.1 troubles (ignore last post) (Michael Prokop)
>    3. Re: Hi again - here's some more stuff for you... :-) (Andy Elvey)
>    4. Re: RC 1.1 troubles (ignore last post) (C.M. Brannon)
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> Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:27:26 -0600
> From: cmbrannon at cox.net (C.M. Brannon)
> Subject: Re: [Grml] RC 1.1 troubles (ignore last post)
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> Michael Prokop <mika at grml.org> writes:
> 
>> Are you sure the ISO on your CD is *really* OK? Any chance to test
>> it on another system to check whether it basically works at all?
> 
> Well, all of the MD5 digests were verified.  I even did
> md5sum -c /mnt/cdrom/grml/md5sums
> and all files were OK.
> I tried it on another machine, and it wouldn't boot.  So it seems that
> my disk must be defective, even though the contents of the filesystem
> are OK according to md5sum.  I can think of several culprits.  For
> one, I use cheap generic CD-R media.  I'll try this process again,
> with some higher-quality disks.
> 
> Have a great day,
> -- Chris
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> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 21:47:25 +0100
> From: Michael Prokop <mika at grml.org>
> Subject: Re: [Grml] RC 1.1 troubles (ignore last post)
> To: grml at mur.at
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> * C.M. Brannon <cmbrannon at cox.net> [20080107 21:31]:
>> Michael Prokop <mika at grml.org> writes:
> 
>>> Are you sure the ISO on your CD is *really* OK? Any chance to test
>>> it on another system to check whether it basically works at all?
> 
>> Well, all of the MD5 digests were verified.  I even did
>> md5sum -c /mnt/cdrom/grml/md5sums
>> and all files were OK.
>> I tried it on another machine, and it wouldn't boot.  So it seems that
>> my disk must be defective, even though the contents of the filesystem
>> are OK according to md5sum.  I can think of several culprits.  For
>> one, I use cheap generic CD-R media.  I'll try this process again,
>> with some higher-quality disks.
> 
> Use readcd (something like "readcd -c2scan dev=/dev/cdrom") for
> checking the CD. md5sums sadly just aren't enough. :((
> 
> I strongly recommend the use of USB pens instead of CD-Rs if
> possible, otherwise fall back to higher quality CDs which are known
> to work fine with your CD burner. That's what we as grml developers
> do as well. :)
> 
> regards,
> -mika-