[SGVLUG] The day BEFORE installing -- check your media!

[Claude Felizardo]

On 5/17/07, Emerson, Tom (*IC) <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
> Happy happy joy joy -- my new laptop arrived today [had it shipped to
> the office]
>
> In anticipation, I burned not one, but TWO copies of OpenSuSE [planned
> to give one away at the meeting if someone wanted one]
>
> Turns out "this was a good thing to do..."
>
> Turns out I *also* forgot to do one rather crucial step -- VERIFY THE
> MEDIA (especially important when you've burned your own copy)
>
> During the install, I got the message "unable to find package KDEBASE3"
> (and then words to the effect it was actually a corrupted file)
>
> ACK!!! Sure enough, upon ejecting the disk, I saw immediately why it
> failed -- or, as they say, a pictures worth a thousand words, so I'll
> let the attachment do the rest of the talking [unless, of course, out
> list strips it -- don't remember how Michael has it set up -- in any
> case, it is a reasonably small file]

not sure what i'm looking for - there's a lot of stuff that is
reflected.  is it a scratch or bad media  a partial burn or what?