[ale] 'toast' installation?

[Geoffrey]

This issue reminds me of a similar problem I had.  It turned out, that 
the cdrom drive was dirty.  I picked up one of those cds that you clean 
your audio cd systems with, and after using it on that drive, it worked 
fine.

Marvin Dickens wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 05:06, John Wells wrote:
> 
>>Really?  15 installs so far...no problems whatsoever.  I'd suspect
>>hardware before the software.  I had a bad memory module once that would
>>cause an install to crap out with segfaults consistently...
> 
> 
> Well... Yes. I've had installation problems twice in 12 installs. The
> machines that had the installation problems ultimately had memtest86 run
> on them as well as every other diagnostic tool available (SCSI tools and
> ect..). Both machines passed every test we could throw at them including
> multiple kernel compiles. FWIW, one machine was an AMD Athlon XP
> (1.6GHz) and the other an Intel Coppermine (1GHz). In both cases, the
> installation program would ask to have a new cd inserted. Once the cd
> was inserted and the "OK' button was pushed, the machine would refuse to
> mount the cd. It would happen randomly, alternating between cd no.2 and
> cd no. 3. Also, I have since used these same cd's to do about 6 installs
> with no problems (These cd's were purchased from RH, they were not ISO's
> that were downloaded). My friends out at VA-Software have had the
> *exact* same experience that I have just described. 
> 
> Best
> 
> Marvin Dickens
> 
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