donavan nelson wrote:
Geoff where did you get this information? I'd be interesting in reading it.
Typically, these issues are:
- cheap/low quality media,
Multiple disks burned, using various brands. Only disk2 fails, others are fine. Every time.
- burning at 48X and hoping that old 4x IDE cdrom will read the disk
while trying to install.
Burned at 4x, read in a 52x drive that is less than 6 months old.
As a test, turn around and mount mount the CD on the machine that burned the disk and try doing a "cp -a" off the cd to your hard disk.
I will try that.
A better option, particularly if you have enough machines is to setup a machine as a install server. Over the lan it's much faster than CD (for me any YMMV). This box can also be turned into a local repository for yum updates. It's also much faster doing an upgrade off a local box. :)
I'm building from scratch. It's not an upgrade. Still may be a better way though. Can you still install over HTTP?
-Scott