On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:11:30 -0700
"Eric \"Shubes\"" <
plug@shubes.net> wrote:
> 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'
I'm guessing that some CD readers are just slow to wake up. For that SmartBootManager[1] works great.
Dennisk
[1]
http://btmgr.webframe.org/
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