I too have an old PB, the 4x CD-ROM was giving me the same problems when I used either CheapBytes Cds or ones I burnt at work. I replaced the CD with a 24x and everything went fine afterwards.
>>> <debian-user@lists.debian.org> 04/21/99 10:38pm >>> On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 09:48:40PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: [...] > and burned a cd image of Slink with my CD-R. [...] > The problem is that the PB's CD-ROM fails intermittently. I randomly get > errors extracting the base system. Of the 5 times I've tried to install, > several times I've gotten further than the base system, only to have dselect > crap out with kernel i/o timeouts. FreeBSD exhibits similar behaviors when > it is extracting its 'bin dist' files. Some older CD-ROM drives tend to have problems with homeburnt cdroms (and CD-RW media even more so), due to the color of the media. These are the classical symptoms. You're probably best off using a different cdrom drive to install from (I'd just take out that 24x for a bit). Check the drive using a CD off a conventional press. -=- James Mastros -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you more human then any of us." -=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death. cat /dev/urandom|james --insane=yes > http://www.rtweb.net/theorb/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
