I made mine on Windows NT4. Installed on several computers without the
problem you mentioned. Maybe the discs that don't work are just cheap discs
and only work on the drive that wrote them. (or not).
- Stacey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Deven Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 9:37 PM
Subject: [Cooker] Air ISO boot problems.
> To anyone interested,
>
> I have recently discovered the answer to a problem I have seen on
> this list wuite a bit. People have been having problems with the Mandrake
> 7.0 ISO not booting properly, and through experimentation I have
> discovered a possible answer. I assembled a collection of various
> computers and tried to install from an ISO that a friend had downloaded
> and burned that didn't work for him. Consistently, the CR-ROM install
> failed during the reading of the CD-ROM boot image (i.e. after the splash
> screen, and the kernel demsg). I then took a CD that I had and
> installed. It consistently worked on all 7 machines. I looked for a common
> denominator, and I found that my friend had burned his ISO from a windows
> machine, and I had burned mine under Linux (cdrecord). I then realized
> that this may be the problem. I brought in a few more friends with varying
> hardware and OSs, and every CD burned from windows (no metter where the
> ISO was d/l'd from) froze at the same point, every linux burned CD worked
> without a hitch. Please verify and post any further information.
>
> Deven Phillips,
> Cytronix Computer Services, Inc.
