Re: CD media woes on laptops

Andy Guerriero wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop that I have been trying to install
> Linux on, rather unsuccessfully I might add. The problem seems to be
> with the CD media I am choosing to use. Specifically - when I burn
> ISO images onto CDs and try to install from them, the install fails.
> I have used checksums to make sure my images are clean.
>
> I have tried:
> Fedora Core 3 - failed on disc 2
> Slackware 10.1 - failed on disc 1
>
> However, when I tried installing an old version of SuSE 8.0 that I
> have store-bought CDs for, it works. But I don't want SuSE 8.0
> because it has some very strange problems.
>
> Anyone know what might be causing this? The failures seem to occur
> when the internal CD drive (mounted as \dev\hdc) can no longer access
> files on the burned CD reliably.
>
> Please disgard any and all dangling prepositions in this post.
>
> Andy Guerriero

Sometimes burning the CD at a slower speed makes it more reliably read
by 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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