This problem has occurred twice for me.
The first time it was RedHat 6.0 that wouldn't install on one of
three machines. I burned a copy of the cd, gave away the
original cd to a friend and installed RedHat 6.0 on the problem
machine using the copy I'd burned.
The second time was with Mandrake 7.0. On this occasion I gave
away the old cdrom to a friend and bought a new cdrom for the
problem machine. Mandrake then installed just fine and I was
glad to be rid of that marginal cdrom.
Never once did I accuse either RedHat or Mandrake of
distributing a "shoddy" product.
Alan
John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > I'm referring to the problem that Mandrake 7.00 7.01 7.02 installers have
> > initializing 'some' atapi cdroms. I have no clue why this is and Mandrake
> > refuses to fix or even help someone fix this bug when they could obviously
> > take some code from earlier distributions, but then they wish to get ou from
> > underneath the RedHat shadow. I've tried to get this problem fixed, I've
> > talked with some people on this list and at Mandrake and 'noone' seems to
> > have a fix for it. I'm not hte only person that has run across this problem
> > and I posted this message to the list to inform people of what a shoddy
> > product Mandrake released in hopes that the masses could possibly help solve
> > this problem instead of being led around by the corporate chain and
> > believing that Mandrake has produced this 'wonderful' product. THAT is part
> > of the purpose of lists like this. I'm not whining about the problem, I'm
> > simply fed up with 'subpar' service by and industry that is part of the
> > customer service industry. I guess you can't expect people to put forth a
> > good effort on something that is free.
> >
> Well, the solution I've seen is to temporarily switch CDROM
> drives during the installation. I realize it's not
> necessarily that easy, but since it seems (from most of the
> comments I've read) to be a case of older hardware not
> working well, it does tend to make sense to upgrade your
> CDROM drive.
> Not trying to start any flame wars or anything over this
> issue. :-)
> John
