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Description of problem:
Doing a "linux mediacheck" on a virgin system (which may or may not have proven hardware, properly configured BIOS, etc) is all well and good, but it would be just as handy (if not more so) to be able to do a "mediacheck" test on a recently burned installer CD/DVD *on the up & running system on which it was just created*.

The rationale being that this system is at least healthy enough to download the image, and burn something onto a media without crashing... so hopefully it's sane enough to verify the media without too much trouble, either.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.49_FC3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man -k mediacheck
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Actual Results:  No man pages for scripts or utilities to mediacheck an installer CD are found.

Expected Results:  A script that could be used on a running system should be indicated. 

Additional info:

You don't always know that the system for which the recently burned install disk is actually sane...  and in some cases, it might actual crash, burn, panic, etc. before it even gets booted far enough along to do the mediacheck.

In other words, booting to the mediacheck phase presumes a certain amount of sanity that might be wishful thinking in a good many cases.