On 05-Oct-99 Greg Gonnerman wrote:
>
>> Could be a problem with the CDrom drive... My first CD on my Intel box
>> would just "stop and take a breath" while reading files, which was ok
>> under winslows... but under Linux, it immediately gave errors and
>> crapped out.
>
> You know what, I've been thinking along the same lines. The system
> in question has had nearly every version of SunOS and Solaris
> installed on it that has been released in the last ten years.
> But, maybe, just maybe, there's something wrong with the CD drive
> or the SCSI controller and Linux isn't as tolerant as SunOS and
> Solaris. I've already tried installing on a different disk, but
> to no avail.
>
> Any thoughts on this? Could this be a plausible explanation?
Don't know but I can relate my own experience.
I have two "Sun Bootable" CDROM drives that boot and install Solaris just fine,
but neither will work for a Linux install. The only drive I have which will
install Linux is an old Pinnacle CD-R drive, and at that it sometimes takes
several tries due to file errors.
Interestingly the CD-R drive will *not* install Solaris.
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