On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 04:24:05PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 09:30:21 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I'm having various random problems installing from Live CD's. The > > problems are weird, inconsistent, and intermittent. The first thing is > > to determine whether or not I have faulty hardware, be it the target box > > or the box that burns the CD. > > Optical media is more and more becoming a complete headache. Have you > considered installing from USB stick instead? > > Anyway, for inconsistent errors (now works, now doesn't), sometimes is > better to replace the DVD drive for a new one (specially when is "old" > for today standards which means 4/5 years), and given their current > prices (~25€) that's something affordable.
Ouch!!, at least try different media first, some media are problematic with some DVD/CD drives (according to some stuff I've read) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120701233400.GL15677@tal
