First, let me say that I’m a total newbie to Linux, but I really want to learn.
I downloaded ISOs of the three-disc installation set from redhat.com. I tried to burn disc 1 with Nero. Error. “Foreign Image File : The entered block size does not correspond to the image length. The block size may be wrong. Do you want to correct the value or ignore the problem?”
Grrrr. I don’t know.
I checked Red Hat’s site. In their download guide, they linked to Chapter 4 of their Getting Started Guide which only tells me how to burn the ISO under Linux. Gee, thanks. Quite helpful.
Well, maybe a different burning program would work. I tried CDRECORD, the free DOS program. No errors. Everything seemed to burn just fine. Then, once the CD is finished, I get : " WARNING: padding up to secsize." Hmm.
I haven’t tried the CD yet and, not knowing much about Linux, I’m wary. What should I do?
Coincidentally, I was just having trouble burning RedHat iso’s using Nero a few days ago. I don’t know if it will help, but this solved my problem. It’s also the first hit I got when I googled “nero image iso”. Good luck.
Thanks for the reply, but the problem isn’t that I don’t know how to burn an ISO disc image with Nero, but that Nero is giving me that block size error and I don’t know how to respond.
The error comes up right after I choose the ISO from the File->Burn Image menu as described on the page. I don’t get the Foreign Image Settings dialog box as described on the page. Instead, I get the abforementioned error with two choices: Correct or Ignore. I’m using Nero 5.5.8.2.
Hmm. I just tried to load the ISOs for discs 2 and 3 in Nero. Disc 3 gave me the same error, but disc 2 seemed to load up just fine with no error and no Foreign Image Settings dialog box.
Now I’m really confused.
Did you perhaps get a bad download? Even if you got it from a main source, your computer could have botched the transfer somehow. It may be a pain in the ass, but you should try downloading 1 or 2 again to see if it works.
Thanks ZipperJJ. That looks like it may be the problem.
Furthur reading confirms that each ISO has an MD5 checksum. Of course, Linux being Linux, redhat.com only tells you how to check the MD5 from within Linux or at the installation boot prompt.
I tried to boot from disc 1, but couldn’t. I know my hardware supports booting from the CD-ROM. That’s how I installed Windows.
After poking around a bit, I was able to find an MD5 checker for Windows. The checksum for disc 2 matched, but discs 1 and 3 were way off. Looks like we have our smoking gun.
I am a bit miffed that FTP, a so-called connection-oriented protocol, failed two out of three times on me. I might expect this kind of behavior from NNTP (Usenet) or something, but FTP? Oh well.
Good thing I’m on ADSL and it only takes about an hour and a half to download each image at 150 KB/s. If I was on a dial-up, I would have gone to the store and bought the damn thing by now.