Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 62889
No Media Check On Diskette Images
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:41:44 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 Description of problem: The new media check feature for installation CD's should be extended to a media check for diskette images (*.img files.) For example when you extract pcmcia.img to a diskette and you boot to that diskette there has not yet been a media check performed on that or any subsequent diskette image. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot to any diskette image from Installation CD 1. 2.Media checking is available for the CDs but not the diskette images. 3. Actual Results: Installation continued using installation and driver diskettes which were not media checked. Had they been corrupted in some way, the installation process could have crashed. Expected Results: Media checking should be performed on diskette images loaded during the installation process, in addition to the CDs. Additional info:
The mediacheck for CDs was instrumented because we get 5-10 bug reports a day which end up being someone burned a bad CD. We have not had this problem with floppy images.