On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 14:58 -0500, jim lawrence wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm helping a friend out to install FC3. He burned the ISO images on > his notebook's CD-RW and wants to install FC3 onto a desktop he has. > The CD-ROM on the Desktop will not read the CD's. I had him check the > burn CD's with his notebook, and the cd's burned fine, so the Fedora > CD's are fine. What can I tell him about the CD-ROM he has in his > Desktop? Buy a new CD-RW ?? > -- This topic comes up a lot. Probably always will. CD-RW drives vary in the speed in which they can burn at. Herein lies much of the problem when trying to read a burned disc in another ROM device. Some CD-ROM drives are not able to read CD-R's burned at fast speeds (like over 8X). For this reason, I burn my distro ISO's at 4X even though my burners are able to burn much faster. Even then I am not guaranteed to have a disc that can be read on all of my machines. I have four burners and the four will not necessarily read a CD-R burned from one of the others. This becomes a real pain for me when archiving. :0/ I'm betting he did them at 12X or faster. However, if he did burn them at 4X and they work on someone else's machine, but not yours, you should consider the possibility that you have the problem, not him. HTH Paul
