dracut error during installation of fedora 18

tech291083 · #1 27th January 2013, 06:16 AM

Dear friends,

I just downloaded Fedora 18 32 bit DVD edition from the below link as a torrent. The checksum is also ok. I have written the downloaded iso to a brand new DVD and tried to install it on my hard drive, but there comes an error as described below.

http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

Quote:

Fedora-18-i386-DVD.torrent

Code:

dracut I/O error,dev sr0, sector 8929088

There are so many lines similar to the one above. I do not understand what is going on. I have thus written the iso to another brand new blank DVD and tried to install, but the same error comes again to halt my installation. Can you please help me? I have always been able to install DVD version of 32-bit Fedora in the past without any problems. Thanks.

george_toolan · #2 27th January 2013, 08:42 AM

Your DVD is unreadable. Please try to burn at a lower speed of 4x or use a different kind of DVD+R.

You could also try the media test option or verify the checksum for the burned media

Code:

sha256sum /dev/sr0