[olug] Distribution download

[trose]

I burned at 4X (from 24X...always get better quality, but the files do not
come up as ISO's but as gzipped files.  I have never encountered that..Or I
guess my question is...how do I turn a gzipped  file into an ISO ?  (or am I
just having a brain fog?)  Thanks for your help...BTW ...I installed the
Access Point and Wi-Fi (crap) at Cal Tacos

Tom Rose 402.813.5826
trose at cox.net

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy
enough people to make it worth the effort." - Herm Albright



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Trent Melcher" <tmelcher at trilogytel.com>
To: "'Omaha Linux User Group'" <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 8:43 AM
Subject: RE: [olug] Distribution download


Another thing could be what speed did you burn the CD's at, and what speed
is the CDROM you had trying to read them.

I ran into a situation where I burned a distro at 24x and when I tried
installing it on my Mom's computer the cdrom drive wouldn't even read it,
come to find out she only had a 16x cdrom drive.  So I reduced my burn speed
doen to 16X and Volia!!! It read it just fine.

Trent

Trent Melcher
Network/System Administrator
Startouch International LTD.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On
> Behalf Of Dave Hull
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 8:30 AM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: RE: [olug] Distribution download
>
>
> Quoting Michael Peterson Wireless <mikejack at stratomail.com>:
>
> >  Has anyone other than I had problems downloading Fedora Core 3 and
> > then installing from CD? If the install CD is a CDRW it
> works, if it
> > is a CD Read Only it does not. The original Fedora Core 3
> iso's have
> > an error in the test sum on boot that you have to disable
> DMA even to
> > check the CD's burned on the original writer device.
> > I have had successful installs via network install method.
>
> I burned FC3 at work on Friday and took it home over the
> weekend to install on some ancient hardware. I could boot
> from the first disk just fine, but the install always failed
> complaining about cpio bad header data or something to that effect.
>
> I unplugged that CDROM drive, making my CD Writeable drive
> the boot device and the install worked just fine. Go figure.
>
> What gets me is that this box, an AMD K6-2 500Mhz CPU running
> on a FIC PA 2013 motherboard with 512MB RAM keeps having
> kernel panics. Something in the 2.6 kernel series is not
> getting along well with my hardware. I've tried acpi=off as a
> boot param thinking that would fix it, but no dice.
>
> This same hardware has been running RHELAS 3 with the 2.4.x
> kernels with no problems, save the usual problems with the
> halt instruction set that is not handled well by this
> processor, but the no-hlt parameter corrects that issue.
>
> Ah well, it's probably time to upgrade my hardware. It's only
> been six years.
>
> --
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