Re: Upgrade-ability of Mepis and Ubuntu (for InstallFest)

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Author: Eric \"Shubes\"
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Upgrade-ability of Mepis and Ubuntu (for InstallFest)
Craig White wrote:

> I don't know what other people's experiences are on this but I have
> found with Fedora disc's that if I burn them at a fairly high speed -
> like say 32x and then I put that cd in an older system - perhaps to use
> as a firewall/router, likelihood of failure during install from error
> reading one of the now 4 cd's is high.
>
> Craig
>

I've experienced that problem too. On one occasion, I simply opened and
closed the CD drive, then it read ok (whew). Fedora has a step in the
install process that reads the discs to verify that they're ok. I think
it's prudent to run that step at the IF, even if the discs have passed
previously on other machines. CD drives vary. In general, I think that
the slower the burn, the better the chance of being read successfully on
older drives.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
  it is a collectivist myth.
  There are only individual citizens
  with individual wills
  and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
     Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237



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