Just the obvious suggestions.
1. Replace the CD-ROM drive. They're cheap. (Alternately, make sure the
problem is with the drive and not the CD-ROMs; I've heard of bad RH CDs before.)
2. Install from floppy. Slackware will still let you install the A (base)
and N (networking) series this way, and once you are on a LAN, you can
install everything else remotely.
3. If the host is on a LAN and there is another Linux machine on it, do an
NFS install. Most (all?) of the major distributions support this option
(I've actually done Slackware, Debian, and I think Red Hat this way).
At 11:21 PM 1/11/99 -0500, Koyote wrote:
>
> I've got a couple of different Linux cd-roms, a nice computer, two
>hard drives, and I can't load the thing!
> My cd-rom drive is flaky, and not reliable enough to get the load
>completed. I managed to get some files copied to the Windows drive,
>but can't access them when in the Linux unstall program (Red Hat).
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