# Problems Burning ISO of Red Hat Linux under Windows 2000 **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 15, 2002, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-burning-iso-of-red-hat-linux-under-windows-2000/128503 "2002-09-15T03:34:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-burning-iso-of-red-hat-linux-under-windows-2000/128503/1 "2002-09-15T03:34:46Z")
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](http://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? ---
**Author:** ![typo\_mna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@typo\_mna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typo_mna)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-burning-iso-of-red-hat-linux-under-windows-2000/128503/2 "2002-09-15T05:06:22Z")
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](http://www.wizardskeep.org/mainhall/tutor/neroiso.html) solved my problem. It’s also the first hit I got when I googled “nero image iso”. Good luck. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-burning-iso-of-red-hat-linux-under-windows-2000/128503/3 "2002-09-15T06:14:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-burning-iso-of-red-hat-linux-under-windows-2000/128503/4 "2002-09-15T06:19:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-burning-iso-of-red-hat-linux-under-windows-2000/128503/5 "2002-09-15T06:38:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-burning-iso-of-red-hat-linux-under-windows-2000/128503/6 "2002-09-15T08:03:31Z")
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](http://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.