[ale] Install Issues with my inspiron 8500

[Jeb Barger]

It's a NEC DVD -+ RW.  It's also not listed in on Mandrake's site.

Anybody know of any problems with this drive?

Jim Philips wrote:

> On Monday 06 September 2004 02:24 pm, Jeb Barger wrote:
> 
>>I have been trying to installing MDK10 on my inspiron 8500.  Things go
>>fine except when it asks for the second cd.  It will tell me that it is
>>not found, once I put it in of course.  I thought it was just a bad cd,
>>so I burnt another one same problem.  I have also tried different
>>distro's they all have problems when I asked to switch cd's.  I have
>>also tried burning the cd's using a different burner.  Any ideas?
>>
>>The only distro I have had luck with was a Fedora boot DVD (didn't need
>>to switch disks and it worked).
> 
> 
> Maybe there are issues with your CD drive. What kind is it? Have you done any 
> searches based on the hardware involved? You may find that there are 
> parameters you need to add to properly recognize your drive at boot time.
>