Rafiq_Maniar@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>I had the exact same problem, using two different CD burners on the same machine.
Eventually, I tried just burning the ISO's on my older laptop, and they worked just fine. Having wasted so much time trying to get working CDs originally, I never investigated the root cause of them not being burned correctly on the first machine, so haven't got a solution unfortunately.
Maybe just try burning from a different computer.
Rafiq
I've been through this five times now and on two of the tries, I've done just that and had the install fail. However, this last batch of ISOs came from a site reported in this list as being a reliable mirror, so I'm going to try skipping the mediacheck again and see what happens. If that fails, I'll get Roxio out, turn on the write verification so I *KNOW* my CD is properly burned.
If that fails, then I'll try using a different CDROM drive in my target machine. I seriously doubt that's the problem because I had Windows 2000 Enterprise Server on this box and had no problems with the drive at all. But, one never knows, so I swap it out and see....
Try skipping mediacheck, just for grins and giggles. There is a strong possibility it will successfully complete the install anyway.
M.Hockings:
I would make sure that you are burning the CD at or below it's max burn speed. Some of the cheap CD's have a low burn speed and may or may not give ideal results if burnt at the writer's max speed.
Tried that, no go.
Dale Sykora:
Other than slowing down the write speed (as already suggested), are you sure you are "creating cd from image" rather than just "copying *.iso to cd".
John Aldrich:
One thing... Are you *sure* you're burning it correctly? I know in the
past
I've accidentally burned the image as a single file to the CD when I
wasn't
paying attention to what I was doing. Make sure you're using the burn an image to a CD option.
Yes. I'm booting from disk 1 and running "linux mediacheck" at the boot: prompt. I've also tried starting the install process which takes you into the mediacheck anyway.
Also, this has worked for me in the past - try booting the install CD with the cdnodma kernel option. I had to do this when I was using a CD-ROM drive to install which obviously wasn't 100% ATAPI DMA compliant or simply dodgy. The install will go slower but if it works who cares?
Regards, Ed.
