[PLUG] RE: PLUG Digest, Vol 4, Issue 29

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Reid Leake wrote:

> I had a similar issue when I installed Slackware, except I had an old IDE
> CDROM. I swapped the drive out with another box and then I had no more
> problems.  I had the same problems with that drive installing Mandrake and
> Gentoo also.  My Linux box deserved my best CDROM drive anyway!

   Good point. I had a perfectly good cd-rom drive (24x) except it was not
capable of properly reading a bootable disk.

Rich

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