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

[Norberto Quintanar]

Have you tried to update the firmware in your DVD module?  From what
I understand this will fix your CD-rom problem, buy "may" create a
new memory problem.

--- Rich Simpson <rich@richcreations.com> wrote:
> 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
> >>
> 
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