this mostly occurs with older cdroms and for some reason with kenwood
true speed cdroms.
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > Finally I attempted an Air (7.0) install on my wife's machine
> > over her Venus (6.0) installation. It failed at the point of
> > initializing the cdrom. I made a boot disc to use the text
> > install and it failed too, at initializing the cdrom. I then
> > installed Helios (6.1) on that machine (to see if it would have
> > any problems) without a hitch.
> >
> [snip]
>
> This is an update on the above problem. I've successfully
> installed Air (7.0) on the above machine by swapping out the
> cdrom drive for another. After the drive change the
> installation went flawlessly. I guess that the drive was not
> reading the cd very well and at a certain point the read
> problems would crash the install. I've seen this behavior
> before, but still don't understand why it doesn't generate an
> error message?
>
> Alan
