On Tuesday 08 January 2002 21:36, you wrote: > 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 Andy, go to a console and type in "cdrecord -scanbus" and see if it still shows you your CDRW or nothing. If it shows the writer then the CD burning programs like gtoaster should still be able to find it. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
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