On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:37:34 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Camaleón wrote:
>> Optical media is more and more becoming a complete headache. > > Why? (...) - Because these components are usually poorly manufactured and of very bad quality (mixing plastic with laser that neeed a precise calibration is not a bright good idea...) so it's normal to see them failing with weird and random errors. - Optical media and drives are hard/costly to debug. - Optical media and drives are very slow for today needs and standards. - They are hard and complex to manage because the needing for specific drivers and applications for the OS and the rest of appliances. > I'm a slow typist - test install completed without apparent symptoms. Good for you :-) > Hmmm - now that I stop and think about it. I believe all observed > symptoms revolve around root password not being recognized. If you reached that far it means the problem is not in the installation media but elsewhere. >> Have you considered installing from USB stick instead? > > Yes. But by personality I'm the type that will the "WHY?" of a failure > before looking for a workaround. The key here is "why" what? You seemed to directly point (without providing more data) the origin of the problem to be on the CD medium or drive unit so you will have to ask you "why" you thought so. What were the exact symptoms? What error did you get? In what stage of the installation appeared? >>> I need two diagnostics: >>> 1. verify what's on the CD matches the ISO from which it >>> was generated. >>> [already have verified that the downloaded MD5SUM >>> matches repository] >> >> http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/index.en.html#verify > > debian.org reminds me of the original CPM-80 manual, info there but > dense in all possible connotations of the word > > Perhaps I should have specified I was looking for end user friendly > tool. There's not such friendly tools for checking CD/DVD optical media. Now you see why I said there were a headache? The best example of this is near us, in our linux world: working and developing with the scsi layer ;-) >>> 2. verify target system reads CD/DVD correctly. >> >> (...) >> >> Is your CD/DVD reader capable of booting from it? > > > yes Fine then. Now you can check if the unit is also working without problems (reading from/writing to CDs/DVDs) once the system has been installed. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/jssg10$4gd$9...@dough.gmane.org
