>Solution: >It was nothing to do with the hardware (phew). >I found the problem to the CD-R that was made. My Pentium75 with quad >speed cd >was having trouble reading this particular CD-R. So what I did was >make a copy but burning it at 2x speed. > >And now the install works fine! > >(stating the obvious...) I noticed that if the Redhat Installer takes >a long time to come up, the cd drive is probably having trouble reading >the CD. >(shouldn't take more then a minute from boot floppy disk...) > >btw: the disk was purchased at a local linux merchant. Aging and older model CDROM drives, and yours is a 4x, have more trouble reading CD-Rs than pressed CDs. Apparently the signal strength is lower. It also depends a bit on the CD-R material, some dyes have better "contrast" than others. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
