yellowdog-general digest, Vol 1 #1196 - 7 msgs

[Rich Simpson]

It turned out to be my CD-r disks, I changed brands, still 700MB (as 
that was all I could find) but maxell instead of memorex... Should have 
tried that before...

On Dec 12, 2003, at 11:01 AM, 
yellowdog-general-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:

> Message: 1
> From: Rich Simpson <rich@richcreations.com>
> Subject: Re: yellowdog-general digest, Vol 1 #1195 - 8 msgs
> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 06:42:20 -0800
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
> 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
>>>
>