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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lachman, Lawrence
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:53 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Mandrake Install Problem
>
>
> I own a Plextor PX-W1210TA internal CD-RW.  When I boot off
> of the Mandrake 7.2
> inst CD I
> successfully get the page with the penguin and two choices:
> F1 for more options,
> Enter to continue.  When I press I get the following error:
> "The CDROM device
> does not seem to contain a Linux Mandrake CDROM."  After
> pressing OK the dialog,
> "Initializing CDROM..." appears, but never goes away.
>

Larry

The reason for your problem is given here

> <4>warning: defective cdrom.  Enabling "cruft" mount option.

Are your CDs from a boxed set or did you burn them from the ISOs.
If you burned them what program did you use and did you do the burn for CD
Imange?

   Charles  (-:

Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.



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