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| Hi all ,
I am an old mandrake user getting back into Linux, but I am having a
problem. I have
downloaded the 3 ISO's for Red Hat 9 for i386, and made the 3 iso's just
fine with nero. However
every time I go to install cd 2 ends up testing bad. I went on and tried to
do a workstation
install but it fails on the "xpdf package " of disk two everytime.
I tried redownloading disk two from a different mirror and recreating
the disk
but it still fails the initial cd test at the begging of the install. Disk
one and three pass just fine
tho, weird huh?
I have a dell inspiron 5100 laptop (pent 4, 512mb ram, 32mb radeon video),
and I
am using VMware. Nero is version 5.5, and the Host OS is XP Pro.
I created the three install cd's on this laptop, and I have never had a
problem
burning cd's or making ISO's.
thanks for the help,
james
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| Carlo 2004-02-21, 12:33 am |
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Hi James,
I have almost the same configuration as you, and had the exact same problem.
The .iso file of disc 2 was ok: downloaded from different sites it was the
same,
and telling VMWare to use the .iso file instead of the physical cd-rom
worked
ok too. So the fault must be in burning the cd-rom.
So I burned at the lowest possible speed (1x) for maximum quality, and set
Nero
to allow some overburn (it's the largest cd-rom, and still within normal
limits,
but by this time I allowed for magic), and this time testing the cd-rom
afterwards
PASSed. But the weirdness continued. Now checking my previously burned
cd-roms of disc 2 PASSed too. Aha, the one thing I had done differently was
using the .iso file for the first cd-rom. So I booted an empty VMWare pc
with a physical disc1, and yes, testing cd-rom 2 FAILed. Knowing some of
VMWare's quircks I now disconnected and reconnected the virtual cd-rom
drive, and yes, now testing disc 2 PASSed. I did some more testing.
Conclusion:
All our downloaded .iso files and burned cd-roms thereof are ok.
The problem is with VMWare: it has a problem reading a significantly
fuller physical cd-rom after reading an emptier physical cd-rom.
The solution is to in VMWare disconnect and reconnect the cd-rom
drive from the current virtual machine before reading a fuller cd-rom..
Carlo
"James" <jedimindtrick@cox.net> schreef in bericht
news:hvuVb.18257$Ii2.6678@lakeread03...
> Hi all ,
>
> I am an old mandrake user getting back into Linux, but I am having a
> problem. I have
> downloaded the 3 ISO's for Red Hat 9 for i386, and made the 3 iso's just
> fine with nero. However
> every time I go to install cd 2 ends up testing bad. I went on and tried
to
> do a workstation
> install but it fails on the "xpdf package " of disk two everytime.
>
> I tried redownloading disk two from a different mirror and recreating
> the disk
> but it still fails the initial cd test at the begging of the install. Disk
> one and three pass just fine
> tho, weird huh?
>
> I have a dell inspiron 5100 laptop (pent 4, 512mb ram, 32mb radeon video),
> and I
> am using VMware. Nero is version 5.5, and the Host OS is XP Pro.
>
> I created the three install cd's on this laptop, and I have never had a
> problem
> burning cd's or making ISO's.
>
> thanks for the help,
>
>
> james
>
>
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This problem and a solution is documented in the
VMWare Guest OS Installation Guide, which might
be downloaded from www.vmware.com.
Carlo
"James" <jedimindtrick@cox.net> schreef in bericht
news:hvuVb.18257$Ii2.6678@lakeread03...
> Hi all ,
>
> I am an old mandrake user getting back into Linux, but I am having a
> problem. I have
> downloaded the 3 ISO's for Red Hat 9 for i386, and made the 3 iso's just
> fine with nero. However
> every time I go to install cd 2 ends up testing bad. I went on and tried
to
> do a workstation
> install but it fails on the "xpdf package " of disk two everytime.
>
> ...
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