[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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