At 04:15 PM 1/7/02 -0800, Andy Davidson wrote: >I am trying to install 8.1 on a PC (AMD AthlonXP 1700, one IDE drive, one >DVD drive, one CD-RW drive) and I get to the point where it wants to >display the packages to install. At that point, I get the series of cdrom >errors shown in the included dmesg. Sometimes it stops after a few tries >and displays the message "An error occurred. No hdlists found" Other times, >it just cycles forever as in the attached dmesg. > >I have previously installed this version of Mandrake on this machine from >these CDs, though with a different monitor. Best guess: do I have a bad CD >or a bad CD drive? And what can I do about either?
As a couple of people pointed out, it appears that I have a marginal CD-ROM drive. Actually the drive used as the CD-ROM drive is actually a DVD drive (LITE-ON DVD-ROM LTD163) while I also have a CD-RW drive (LITE-ON LTR16102B). I "solved" my problem with installing packages by modifying fstab to make the CD-RW drive the cdrom drive to be used, at /mnt/cdrom. It reads all the CDs fine. I have no idea what this will do to cdrecord et al, but I guess I'll find out. :-) Many thanks for the help. andy
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