Re: CD media woes on laptops

I have some pressed media of Ubuntu Warty, which you can then upgrade to
Horry. I will bring them to the next east side meeting, and will have some
brought to the next west side meeting for you.

On Mon, 2 May 2005, 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
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