On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 08:18 -0800, Brian D. McGrew wrote: > I've seen this exact same problem before and I see it frequently on Dell > Dimension 4700's. It's the CD-ROM drive. Either swap out the drive or > try a network install. For some reason, whatever brand of CD-ROM drives > (Dell) are being used, they don't seem to care much for home brew discs. > > -brian > Thanks Brian, I have never done a network install before so this might be some fun. I Looks like the installation guide gives the details except I can not find how to use the media. I presume I need to copy the media to a different Linux machine and then mount it making it active with NFS. Is that correct? Greg
