On Saturday 20 January 2001 10:07 am, Jon Doe wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> > Judith; There are several possibilities that come to mind.
> >
> > 1 - Your CD-Rom drive is defective?
> > 2 - Your CD's are defective? ( This just happened to me on CD#3 -
> > Mandrake is sending me a replacement)
> Well I have had the same problem with my 7.2. I know its not
> defective CD's though, the error is on different packages everytime
> and I have 3 different sets of 7.2 CDs, the complete from walmart,
> two cd set from cheapbytes and the deluxe 7 cd set from staples and I
> always get the same thing, some error ocoured installing some package
> or other.
> CD-Rom is not defective becuase 7.1 and Redhat will install with no
> errors.
Actually this does indicate hardware errors, and the CD's would be
included as hardware. Getting errors at different places, is a strong
clue that it's defective or marginal hardware. Same thing applies to
failed compiles, eg, a kernel from source.
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
