On Saturday 03 February 2001 18:42, Christiano Anderson wrote:

[snip]
> > I don't have an answer for you, but I preordered my 2.8 CDs, and when I
> > tell the install what cd device to access the kernel started spitting out
> > errors. (I don't remember what they were, its been a while now.) I could
> > then eject the CD and put it back it while the kernel was screaming its
> > head off and then it would go fine. In addition, my src.tar.gz file does
> > not extract correctly, and it utterly refuses to extract ports.tar.gz.
> > At work we had two sets of 2.8 CDs preordered as well, and both of those
> > work fine.
> >
> > Maybe its a problem in the CD creation?
> >
> > --
> > Adam VanderHook
> > acidosusers.sourceforge.net
> > http://www.capcol.edu/student/avanderhook/
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> I'm not sure about problems in the CD creation, because I have
> sucessfully used the same CD set to install 3 other machines.
>
> I don't have an answer for this question, but I have tried to use
> another disk in the same machine, but it doesn't work again. I think it
> could be an error in the disk BIOS geometry or something like that.
>
> Thanks for your reply,
>
> Christiano

Well I have successfully installed 2.7 from official CDs on this same machine
with the same drive before, and I have successfully restored backups a few
times from a 3 cd set of CDRW backups. I don't think its really a fluke
being the 2.8 CDs barf at the same point all the time. This is just really
odd I guess.

I am glad to know I'm not the only one to have experienced problems.

-- 
Adam VanderHook
acidosusers.sourceforge.net
http://www.capcol.edu/student/avanderhook/

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