On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:11:30 -0700 "Eric \"Shubes\"" wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > > I don't know what other people's experiences are on this but I have > > found with Fedora disc's that if I burn them at a fairly high speed - > > like say 32x and then I put that cd in an older system - perhaps to use > > as a firewall/router, likelihood of failure during install from error > > reading one of the now 4 cd's is high. > > > > Craig > > > I've experienced that problem too. On one occasion, I simply opened and > closed the CD drive, then it read ok (whew). Fedora has a step in the > install process that reads the discs to verify that they're ok. I think > it's prudent to run that step at the IF, even if the discs have passed > previously on other machines. CD drives vary. In general, I think that > the slower the burn, the better the chance of being read successfully on > older drives. > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' I'm guessing that some CD readers are just slow to wake up. For that SmartBootManager[1] works great. Dennisk [1] http://btmgr.webframe.org/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss