yellowdog-general digest, Vol 1 #1195 - 8 msgs

[Rich Simpson]

Thanks, I will go buy some 650MB disks and try them, if you can even 
still buy them..., but I am puzzled, I use 700MB disk all the time in 
Mac OSX on this machine, and as a test, I copied my OSX install disks, 
using the same blank cd's and burner I used for YDL, and it installed 
fine, as well as netbsd, but mandrake failed in the same way as YDL... 
Is this a problem with the hardware, or with the way linux interacts 
with the hardware (driver issues)?
-Rich
On Dec 12, 2003, at 6:06 AM, 
yellowdog-general-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:

> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:07:30 -0400
> From: Gavin Hemphill <hemphill@cdr1-12.accesscable.net>
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: YDL install on pismo fails
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
> The original dvd-rom module on the pismo has trouble with certain
> oversize (ie. 700Mbyte) cdroms.  I was lucky and had a regular cd-rom
> available from another machine that let me do the install on the pismo.
>   Some people have had success by re-burning the cd-roms on different
> burners.
> 	G++
>
> Rich Simpson wrote:
>> I posted before about a failed install on a G3 firewire laptop 500mhz
>> (pismo), It has the original dvd-rom module in the media-bay, 256MB 
>> ram
>> (apple installed) and 12GB HD. I have tried a text install as well as
>> the gui install, and it does the same thing, it starts installing and
>> then just stops, no errors it just sits there for ever. I used the 
>> same
>> disks to install on an emac and it worked fine, so I assume my disks 
>> are
>> good. Any ideas about what is wrong here?
>> -rich
>>