Your welcome, Brian! I'm glad you found what your problem was. Now, what do you (and I who also have a CD-RW in my Linux 8.2 machine that won't read 700 MB CDs properly) and the others with this problem do about it?
It seems that this will be a reoccurring theme until all of us get rid of our older CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/CD-RW drives. However, this might be a good opportunity to rally together as a group of users who feel that a change needs to be made. There's no reason beyond convenience for Mandrake (I include the very obvious cost factor of burning, packaging and shipping out one extra CD as part of this) to have any of the distribution disks larger than 650 MBs. ....At least for a little while longer. Mandrake would be sympathetic to our needs if they knew that there were enough users suffering from this problem. If a few of us make our thoughts known, we might get a second set of ISOs on-line. If a LOT of us make our needs very real to them, they might even see the logic of commercially producing a second set of CDS. We represent their proud and elite. We make them what they are by our presence on their listserv, helping users learn to get the most from their product. Our devoted and dedicated, not to mention the very fact that we choice their distribution over others, makes us their front line. They are aware of this, and I'm sure that they care. However....enough of us have to voice our concerns to make it be known to them that this is bigger concern than they might have once thought. Otherwise, things will continue on as they are and those of us with older drives on our Linux machines will have to buy new drives, find ways to reverse engineer the ISOs, or install in another way. We shouldn't have to do this. We shouldn't have to replace a good working piece of hardware (supported by the distro, at that!) just to install a newer version. Not yet. Not until our old machines are like 286 doorstops, I would think. Those of you who have been here longer than me must know of a proper way to make this request in numbers. I urge everyone, even those who are not plagued with this problem, to band together and let Mandrake know that we are hurting for change: a very small change that is possible and manageable. We do it right, with respect, but with an obvious underlining strength derived from need. Now that I have everyone's attention and the word "mutiny" being murmured is being whispered within the gathered crowd, does anyone have an productive ideas as to how we should make such a respectful plea to Mandrake with the greasiest impact possible? "All for one, and one for all!" (Sorry for that...I just recently watched the movie, "The Musketeer".) :-D Rabble-Rousing T
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