I tried installing Slack 11, unsucessfully. All went well till the
install finished with CD1 and the CDROM ejected and prompted for CD2.
When I inserted CD2, closed CD player and tried to continue, I
received a msg to the effect no CD player was found and the disk was
ejected. No retries succeeded. WTF!? I've intalled the last 4-5
vers of Slack exactly the same way on this same box. No hardware
differences. No procedure differences. But, something is different.
What?

nb

notbob <notbob@nothome.com> writes:
> I tried installing Slack 11, unsucessfully. All went well till the
> install finished with CD1 and the CDROM ejected and prompted for CD2.
> When I inserted CD2, closed CD player and tried to continue, I
> received a msg to the effect no CD player was found and the disk was
> ejected. No retries succeeded. WTF!? I've intalled the last 4-5
> vers of Slack exactly the same way on this same box. No hardware
> differences. No procedure differences. But, something is different.
> What?

Faulty CD2, perhaps?

jack
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On 2006-10-27, Jack Strangio <look@approved.header> wrote:

> Faulty CD2, perhaps?

Maybe. I'm going to try again, later, with a dwnld iso. We'll see.

nb

On 2006-10-27, Jack Strangio <look@approved.header> wrote:

> Faulty CD2, perhaps?

Success. I think it may be a flakey CD player, but I'm not sure. I
finally got the d/l'd iso CD to work after trying 2-3 times. The org
boxed may have eventually worked if I'd persisted. Typically, if the
system doesn't see the CD, it will give a "no media found" (or is that
just M$?) or some similar error. This was consistently a "no device"
error. Strange though, as I've never had a problem with this Asus 52x
CD player and still don't seem to have probs with any other CD media.

nb ...still baffled

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:14:28 -0600,
notbob <notbob@nothome.com> wrote:
> On 2006-10-27, Jack Strangio <look@approved.header> wrote:
>
>> Faulty CD2, perhaps?
>
> Success. I think it may be a flakey CD player, but I'm not sure. I
> finally got the d/l'd iso CD to work after trying 2-3 times. The org
> boxed may have eventually worked if I'd persisted. Typically, if the
> system doesn't see the CD, it will give a "no media found" (or is that
> just M$?) or some similar error. This was consistently a "no device"
> error. Strange though, as I've never had a problem with this Asus 52x
> CD player and still don't seem to have probs with any other CD media.
>
> nb ...still baffled


FWIW, I ran into a somewhat similar similar problem trying to
install some live Linix CD a while back (don't recall the exact
distro). The box would boot with the live disk, and then I'd get
a kernel panic when trying to run the install. As best I can
tell, the CD drive was too slow (or unreliable?) and the install
calls to it were timing out--the problem cleared up when I swapped
in a different drive.

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