It's not the cd that's bad it's the hardware. I fell into this mistake
today. It turned out to be a bad cdrom drive. The reason that mandrake
has been getting all this mail lately is because of bad hardware. There
distro is highly optimized and hardware manufacturers have been putting
out substandard hardware. This means that the optimized code has
problems running on machines cdroms, hard drives, motherboards, etc.
that have until now been just barley getting along in the industry.
With windows it is not optimized so windows will usually run on this
substandard hardware. Windows may even get blamed for crashing sometimes
when it is the fault of the hardware. Linux-mandrake however will have
problems installing on this same hardware. The solution is to make sure
that you use good quality parts. Don't go out and but the cheapest
hardware and expect it to work all the time or for as long.
Jason Straight wrote:
>
> I have downloaded the mandrake 7.1 iso's (inst and ext), with md5
> checksums. I have burned 2 CD's of the ext disc and the RPMS dir has
> some funky $!@# in it.
>
> The md5sums check good on both, I even DL the md5sums from another site
> to see if it matched up, and it says ok. So are the iso's bad right from
> mandrake or what? I don't want to go thru the setup on this and start
> handing out disks telling people how great it is only to have it crap
> half way thru package install.
>
> --
> Sir, I'm afraid your computer has the Microsoft virus that's been spreading
> to computers all over the world like wildfire and causing them to become
> unstable. In order to remove it go to www.linux-mandrake.com and follow
> the installation instructions.
