H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
On Saturday 21 October 2006 13:48, ET wrote:
next time, burn the disks at about x4 speed.
my bet is the problem is more from well worn cd reader or writer drive
spindle wear and the difference between the 2 (reader and writer drives).
I agree with Harm, if you had moved the CD reader that was able to
install to the box that could not install, your problem may have moved
with the CD reader.
Just graspings straws there but it's worth a try, eh?
In my case the CD's were burned on 2 different drives as burning 6 CD's takes
a long time with just 1 drive. One a thinkpad T40 shouldn't be that worn
allready but could be. The other is a drive that's just a few months old. The
(in my case) apparrently faulty CD was burned with the latter.
The DVD was burned with an even newer double layer burner on yet another box.
So that checks off the well worn drives......as well there are no problems
with Mandy-one with any of the drives used as a burner.
Methinks there's more afoot with the CD's (i.e. installer) than meets the
eyes. Hope it doesn't backfire on Mandy with this world-wide install fest
thingy. It would be typical of them not to have a listening ear on the lists
directly after a club release and move head-on into disaster.
My advise to the install festers: Go with the Mandy One CD's and show off how
easy one can install packages from the net later. You'll need lpf packages
anyway, as you can't send people home with a box that can't read encrypted
DVD's. That really would be a show stopper for new adverts chasing 'em back
to Winders.
I gotta agree, but I might offer the boot.iso for whatever arch. saves
downloading a whole slew of files you will never use. have you tried
that yet? about a 13 meg download, starts the installer, then ftp
install from the mirrors of your choice, (just no PLF until after
install) only downloading what you want to install.
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reg. Linux User 167806
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