I've got a funny problem: I've downloaded and burned the ISOs for the Official Debian 2.2 CD's, but apt-cdrom refuses to recognize CD #2 and #3... It dies on a read error, but my other box (RH 6.2 / Linux 2.4.0-test9) reads all three CDs without a problem. (It doesn't have apt, so I can't see if this problem exists here, too). The CD drive works, or at least works with CD #1. All three CD's, if it is relevant, were burned on Maxell 12x CD-R media at 10x under Windows NT Workstation 4.0.
The system that I'm installing on is a Compaq Presario notebook which worked perfectly under SuSE 6.3 and FreeBSD 4.0 (no sound under FreeBSD, sound required a 2.4 kernel in Linux, but this is a very minor issue) Is there an easy way to verify that the CD's work without dumping an image to my HDD and comparing its md5sum against the one at www.linuxiso.org? Like maybe doing 'md5sum /dev/scd0' or something? And if apt-cdrom still hates them, can I just convert them to rpm or tgz with alien and install the packages that way, or will this cause major damage? If so, I can always grab source tarballs and build the packages on CD 2 and 3 from source, but I've only got a cheesy 33.6 dialup (56k modem, ISP only has 33.6... They support BSD-compression, but a fat load of good that does for tarballs...) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/
