[olug] Problems with CD installs

[Jay Woods]

I have been having problems with Mandrake 9 on a 350 MHz system which 
has a very old
CD drive.

Jeff Hinrichs wrote:

>Has anyone else been having troubles lately with CD based installs on
>older systems?  I've been running in to problems several times of late
>with older machines who were running older versions of Linux (RH7.2 and
>previous) not being able to upgrade/install from RH7.3, RH8.0, Mandrake 9
>ISO images burnt to disk.  These machines can read CD-R disks but it
>appears if the image is over 650MB there is a good chance I will have
>problems.
>
>I've tried burning the ISOs at slower speeds (4x) but the problem persists.
>
>I've had to do local FTP installs to get these machines upgraded.  Is it
>just me and chaos that I've run in to some unusual problems or have others
>encountered similar situations?
>
>If others have it might be a good idea to have a FTP server at the
>installfest to handle these types of situations.
>
>-jeff
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