[olug] Distribution download

[Trent Melcher]

Another thing could be what speed did you burn the CD's at, and what speed
is the CDROM you had trying to read them.

I ran into a situation where I burned a distro at 24x and when I tried
installing it on my Mom's computer the cdrom drive wouldn't even read it,
come to find out she only had a 16x cdrom drive.  So I reduced my burn speed
doen to 16X and Volia!!! It read it just fine.

Trent

Trent Melcher
Network/System Administrator
Startouch International LTD.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On 
> Behalf Of Dave Hull
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 8:30 AM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: RE: [olug] Distribution download
> 
> 
> Quoting Michael Peterson Wireless <mikejack at stratomail.com>:
> 
> >  Has anyone other than I had problems downloading Fedora Core 3 and 
> > then installing from CD? If the install CD is a CDRW it 
> works, if it 
> > is a CD Read Only it does not. The original Fedora Core 3 
> iso's have 
> > an error in the test sum on boot that you have to disable 
> DMA even to 
> > check the CD's burned on the original writer device.
> > I have had successful installs via network install method.
> 
> I burned FC3 at work on Friday and took it home over the 
> weekend to install on some ancient hardware. I could boot 
> from the first disk just fine, but the install always failed 
> complaining about cpio bad header data or something to that effect.
> 
> I unplugged that CDROM drive, making my CD Writeable drive 
> the boot device and the install worked just fine. Go figure.
> 
> What gets me is that this box, an AMD K6-2 500Mhz CPU running 
> on a FIC PA 2013 motherboard with 512MB RAM keeps having 
> kernel panics. Something in the 2.6 kernel series is not 
> getting along well with my hardware. I've tried acpi=off as a 
> boot param thinking that would fix it, but no dice.
> 
> This same hardware has been running RHELAS 3 with the 2.4.x 
> kernels with no problems, save the usual problems with the 
> halt instruction set that is not handled well by this 
> processor, but the no-hlt parameter corrects that issue.
> 
> Ah well, it's probably time to upgrade my hardware. It's only 
> been six years.
> 
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