Re: CD media woes on laptops

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Author: Nathan England
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: CD media woes on laptops
On Monday 02 May 2005 19:20, Jason Spatafore wrote:
> On Monday 02 May 2005 14:32, Andy Guerriero wrote:
> > I have tried:
> > Fedora Core 3 - failed on disc 2
> > Slackware 10.1 - failed on disc 1
>
> Over the past 3 weeks, I've encouraged 3 people to install Fedora 3 on
> their systems. Every one of them had a failure on disc2, as well as myself.
> However, when they (and myself) transitioned to the DVD image, they had no
> problems. Perhaps it's not an issue with your cd drive. Just an FYI.


I read somewhere that when you test the disk, you are supposed to boot the
kernel with the 'nodma' option.

Anyone else hear this? Is it true?

nathan
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