my linux box again

[Sean]

Also the lasers get out of whack extremely easily, I dropped mine from
about 3ft and had many an unsuccessful burn until I RMA's it. 

Also media can make a difference. Not all media was created equal. 

bumping the table whilst burning a cd screws them up too =)
(well dropping books on the desk right next to it *lol*)

I should write a book on what _not_ to do *lol*




On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Marcel Kunath wrote:

> I don't want this to be misunderstood but I had Alan burn me four CDs a few
> weeks ago and some of them did also have a slight error on them so that an
> install would break at a certain package. I got around it by switching CDs in
> mid-process
> 
> I doubt its Alan's fault. It just shows CD burning is definitely not flawless.
> 
> mk
> 
> >
> > I got a couple of bad CD's from Alan -RH 6.9 Beta.. (at least I think they are
> 
> > bad.. ) I had pretty much the same problem.  If you look at the CD it doesn't
> > seemed to be burned all the way..  Plus if you switch to a different console
> > (Alt - [F1-F5] ) I was getting a kernel message about looking for sector 53034
> 9
> > with limit of 439000 or something weird like that...
> >
> > Basher584
> >
> >
> > Mr Coffee wrote:
> >
> > > ben wrote:
> > >
> > > >Next: I'm confused about these errors you report.  They're coming
> > > >from the Linux kernel, or from the installation program, or from
> > > >the BIOS, or what?  What is the exact text of one of them?
> > >
> > > well here is what i do. i boot up from the boot floppy i made. it give me a
> > > menu of different installs. i type at the 'boot:" prompt "linux hdb=cdrom"
> > > to make sure it knows where my cdrom is and that should also tell it i want
> > > to cdrom install. it enters the graphical installer. it asks for my language
> 
> > > and the keyboard type. so i enter those. then when i get an error that says
> > > "I could not find a Red Hat Linux CDROM in any of your CDROM devices. please
> 
> > > insert the Red Hat CD and press 'ok' to retry". and i do notice that when
> > > the kernel and installer are loading that it does say hdb=my cd rom info. so
> 
> > > it thinks its there i just get that message in the installer. doesn't make
> > > much sence to me. maybe the cd is bad?
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