[Novalug] new OS for old hdw
Jay Sulzberger
jays@panix.com
Thu Jan 31 14:58:45 EST 2008
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Beartooth <karhunhammas@Lserv.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Jay Sulzberger wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Beartooth <karhunhammas@Lserv.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Ed James wrote:
>>>
>>>> I found a site where somebody put linux with a 2.2.16 kernel onto that
>>>> same model - perhaps the problem isn't the distribution, but the kernel
>>>> version itself?
>>>
>>> That is certainly what the error message means. But now it refuses to
>>> look at anything in the CD drive, even though I do hear that spin.
>>
>> Have you checked the CD itself? Sometimes a copy to CD fails, and you get
>> an unreadable CD.
>
> All the CDs I'm using are ones I've had success with in the past.
> Could dirt or fingerprints do it??
I don't know. Nowadays I only burn a CD maybe every other month,
and in my life, I have had only a very few fail. As far as I
remember, I have never had one that worked and then stopped
working. I am careful to never touch the working side.
oo--JS.
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