Can't boot from Core 2 CD

[Steven W. Orr]

On Tuesday, Aug 17th 2004 at 07:44 -0400, quoth pete snider:

=>On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 22:56, Steven W. Orr wrote:
=>> On Monday, Aug 16th 2004 at 17:44 -0400, quoth bscott at ntisys.com:
=>> 
=>> =>On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, at 4:46pm, steveo at syslang.net wrote:
=>> =>> Does anyone have any idea how I can debug this problem? I can boot from
=>> =>> other CDs, but FC2 just stops dead.
=>> =>
=>> =>  It's unclear from your message how far it gets before it "stops dead".  
=>> =>Does it display any messages at all?
=>> 
=>> Absolutely zip. The screen stops dead black as soon as I hit return.
=>
=>Have you check the md5sum of the CD to verify that it was written
=>properly?
=>
=>-pete
  
The checksum of what I downloaded matches with what the checksum is
supposed to be. But I'm suspicious of what actually got onto the cd.
  
The file i downloaded was FC2-i386-disc1.iso and then I sucked it back 
out
of the cd using
  
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=FC2-i386-disc1B.iso
  
515 > l FC2-i386-disc1.iso FC2-i386-disc1B.iso
-rw-r--r--    1 steveo   steveo   667529216 May 13 05:41 FC2-i386-disc1.iso
-rw-r--r--    1 steveo   steveo   667559936 Aug 16 23:20 FC2-i386-disc1B.iso
516 >

So right off the bat, I suspect I might have a problem.

I used xcdroast to make the cds and now I'm not sure I trust them. What 
commandline tool should I use to burn them correctly?

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