Re: Installation by CD problem

jlkroge_at_publicnetworking.org
Date: 10/31/05 

Date: 31 Oct 2005 09:42:11 -0800

onehappymadman@yahoo.com wrote:
> jlkroge@publicnetworking.org wrote:
> > Did I fail to mention I have Sloooow dial up! My current connection is
> > 31.2 kb an especially fast connection for me. They say the download
> > could take days I am thinking it could take me a week. I have a E-mail
> > into the magazine to see if they will send me another disk but I wonder
> > if this will help as the CD I have dose boot the pc and some of the
> > installation seems to work. My drive I booted off is a DVD drive but an
> > older one.
>
> If you have access to a machine with just a regular CD drive, try the
> disk in that.
>
> Reason I mention this is, when I downloaded Fedora Core 4 from work and
> burned the ISOs to CDs, my DVD drive (which, I thought, is a little
> faster than my CD drive) kept giving me Bad Disk errors during media
> tests. I was about to download the whole set again, when, on a hunch,
> I tried my CD burner drive instead of the DVD drive. And it worked!

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