RH7.3 disc fails on floppy boot install

[Logan Kennelly]

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On Wednesday 05 June 2002 07:57 am, alandd@mindspring.com wrote:
> I have a set of RH7.3 CDs that have been successfully used on two
> computers and at least one other by someone else.  My successes have been
> with computers that were able to boot off the CD and install from there.
>
> I have another computer that does not have the brains to boot from the
> CD.  I successfully did a floppy boot install with RH7.2 on this same
> computer.
>
> I made an install boot floppy that starts up fine but when the install
> gets to the point of reading the CD, it fails.  It attempts to spin up
> several times for several minutes and eventually fails.
>
> I am assuming this is a bad CD that works OK for booting but not for
> floppy installs.  That puzzles me, however, because I would think that
> boot from CD or floppy would use most of the same files on the CD at the
> point the floppy install fails.  Anyone else have any hints here?  Do I
> need to go buy some new CDs?

I have seen this behavior quite a bit on my systems, and I would have to say 
that the CD-ROM is bad.  Although a bit rare with pressed CDs, this 
behavior is much more prevalent among burnt ones.  I also can't tell you if 
getting new CDs will help at all since I have never been able to find out 
what exact propert of the disc causes the CD-ROM to fail.  Essentially, it 
knows there is something there but can't read the disk (similar to what the 
new audio CD copy prevention does intentionally).

Okay, the above doesn't make sense, but I am not about to retype it.

Summary?  Either do the network install (which is really easy if you already 
have a network card) or buy a new CD-ROM (which is really cheap).

Good luck!

PS: Your problems might have something to do with a failing power supply, as 
well.  I know in at least one out of the 3 "bad" CD-ROM drives I owned, the 
problem was fixed by dropping in a new PSU.

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						Logan Kennelly
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