From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux) KHTML/3.4.0 (like Gecko) Description of problem: In section 4.3.3.2 the sample cdrecord command lines should include the -pad option. This will cause cdrecord to give the same functionality as X-CD-Roast in section 4.3.2.1. This functionality is required to burn Fedora discs that can be read in some of the cheaper and nastier CD-ROM drives. Also please make an appropriate note that omitting the -pad option may result in discs that fail the media check of a Fedora install and may in some situations cause an install to abort. RHL9 isn't supported any more, but the web page is linked from the following URL so it's still current. http://fedora.redhat.com/download/#write Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: ... Additional info:
Also sometimes the default pad option is not sufficient for some bad CD-ROM drives. One of my CD-ROM drives won't correctly read disks unless I have a pad size of 60 or more sectors so I am currently burning CDs with an 80 sector padding via the padsize=80s option to cdrecord. It is probably worth noting that increasing the padsize is a good idea if the discs are not readable.
Assigning this to the appropriate owner (Fedora component of RH website) as the Getting Started Guide for Red Hat Linux is no longer supported and will not be updated. The actual fedora webpage in question http://fedora.redhat.com/download/) should have the instructions on-page.
Re-assigning to current Fedora web admin.
A new draft document provides burning instructions that could be expanded to include detailed burning instructions for Linux users: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/BurningDiscs Once that document is graduated from a draft, it can be pointed to from the download instructions instead. The download instructions have themselves moved to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/Download
This doc is now available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org ("Burning Fedora Discs"). Reassigning to proper component.
In our current and future Desktop User Guide we cover using the distro's existing burn features to do this work. That is probably the best solution for Linux; we have a very small chance of covering 100% of hardware cases, and a larger chance of screwing someone else up by trying to do so.
Should have noted, we also provide that link in our Burning Discs document.