Bad Media?

My attempt to install Red Hat 8.0 did not go as planned. While the iso downloaded OK, and the MD5 Checksum matched, apparently the CD I burned for Disk 1 was bad. After a number of attempts to install either hung or spit back an error about being unable to read such and such, I ran the media test of the disk (yeah I should have just run that first, lesson learned) and it failed. Guess we’ll burn another copy and try again later in the week.

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