On Wed Oct 22, 2003 at 10:59:32AM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: [...] > > I realized that the new mandrake just cost me to CDROM drives. > > I couldn't believe it. > > > > So I went and got a new drive this time from a diferent manufacture and > > more recent. > > This time everything was fine, and the installation was executed with no > > problem. > > This issue is being tracked (ie on the maintainers list), but the people > at Mandrakesoft haven't had much confirmation (I think you're about the > 4th reporter now), and it's a bit difficult to test workarounds ... (and > I don't know if they have managed to source a device to test with). > > All the other reports were also for LG drives (I think the same model). > > > Another thing the machine had mandrake 9.1 installed there, and at never > > had problem with the CDROM drive. > > Have you still got such a machine running with Mandrake 9.1? > > I guess it's time to note this on the errata page and/or notify other > common haunts of Mandrake users (Vince, when can I point the folk at > pclinuxonline.com to some official notification of this issue?).
The errata page now indicates this as the first item on the page. Until we know more, I'd recommend that anyone with an LG-based CD-ROM do a network install if at all possible rather than a CD install. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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