Perhaps the second cd is bad? did you run the test on it?

--mat

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 14:29, Goodson, Jacob wrote:
>  
> 
> I am new to the Linux and am trying to install Red Hat 8.0.  I get
> through the first CD, but I get an error after I insert the second CD
> (Unable to Mount CD).  Has anyone run across this problem before and
> is it hard to fix?  Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
>  
> 
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I was able to sucessfully install Red Hat on another machine, so I am fairly
confident the CD is good.
 

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What about the cd-rom drives?  I have known a few to not work so well
with burned cds.

--mat

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 15:01, Goodson, Jacob wrote:
> I was able to sucessfully install Red Hat on another machine, so I am
> fairly confident the CD is good.
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I've had problems with CDs before.  It was generally a bad CD reader.  I have 
one dependable CD reader, an ancient single speed Sony, that I use for new CD 
installs.  Almost all of my others have problems of one sort or another and two 
I actually paid for have died.  Try carefully cleaning the CD itself and 
mounting it on other computers.  If you can see it there, the CD drive is bad.  
If you get it to read on that other computer, move the CD reader and try again. 
 Your install system might be smart enough to pickup where it left.  Depending 
on how flaky the drive is, you might want to start again because you might have 
broken packages from the first CD.  

A Knoppix install might be more robust. 

Distributions  like Debian have network installs to avoid CD problems and to 
make the most recent versions available.  It's not exactly a newbie install, 
but it might be easier than acquiring a good CD reader.  If you have a good 
network connection and a second working computer to look up answers when you 
get stuck, this might be the way for you to go.

We just did an installfest and I'm trying to get another one together.

If you get fed up and want it NOW, I offer a cheap install service:

http://www.hillnotes.org/fixit.html



On 2003.07.30 14:29 "Goodson, Jacob" wrote:
>  
> 
> I am new to the Linux and am trying to install Red Hat 8.0.  I get through
> the first CD, but I get an error after I insert the second CD (Unable to
> Mount CD).  Has anyone run across this problem before and is it hard to fix?
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 

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