trouble installing 3.0.1

Daniel Gimpelevich yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Feb 19 12:09:01 2004


Did you by any chance give cdrecord the -isosize option? That ruins it.
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> From: Russell McManus <russell_mcmanus@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.yellowdog.general
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:59:00 -0500
> Subject: trouble installing 3.0.1
> 
> 
> I'm having trouble installing 3.0.1 on a 9600MP.  It seems that
> install cd 1 can't be read by mac os 9.  I created the install cd sets
> myself by downloading to ibiblio, and burning the images using
> cdrecord on an i386 box.
> 
> The message I get is: "this disk is unreadable by this computer."
> 
> I can mount the cd's on my i386 box after burning them all right, and
> I can drop in install disk 2 or 3, and macos lets me browse the files
> there.  So it's not clear to me what is broken.  I have tried burning
> disk 1 again, but it failed in the same way.
> 
> Should I try downloading install disk 1 again?  Any other ideas?
> 
> -russ