> > > The way you descrive /dev/cdrom i presume the source is on cd, you
> > > are running redhat so the chances are the source archive is in rpm
> > > format, altho' i am presuming that.
> >
> > Nah. It's just a generic Linux file.
>
> Now what is that suppose to mean,????
>
Actually I'm not sure. Poor choice of words. It's an install script (or an executable,
help,
I'm lost in words now, it's got the piston icon).
> > Actually I don't think it's Star Office. I can't open anything from the CDROM
>(txt, pdf,
> > anything). But other CDROMs work fine.
> >
> > I have installed off this CD several times. And I was well on my way to installing
>on this
> > box with this CD. But I stopped it mid-swing. Somehow it tainted the image or
>something.
>
> Above you say cant open anything from the cdrom, in the very next
> sentance you say, i have installed off the cdrom several times.???
It was working on this box. I cancelled an install and came back to it but now it
won't let me
open a single file. What I am guessing is that, when I stopped RH from saving a
/root/soffice51
dir it corrupted something on my hard disk.
> You cannot damage a cdrom in a cdrom drive by simply reading from it,
> you cant damage a iso9660 cdrom by trying to write to it because its
> mounted read only.
>
> You will need to elaborate on what you mean.....
>
I'm sure the CD is fine. What I meant is that somehow, and I'm grabbing, Linux's image
of the
CD has been corrupted?? This is the only CD it has a problem with, and since it didn't
have a
problem an hour before this popped up I am assuming that somehow RH's ability to
translate this
CD has been corrupted. But I don't have a clue what goes on inside RH to read a CD nor
how it
could pick one CD to have a problem with.
>
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
> > John
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Anyone know what's happening???
> > > >
> > > > TIA.
> > > >
> > > > John
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards Richard
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
> --
> Regards Richard
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
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