Argh! FC5 installation: Cannot install FC5 disk #4!

[jludwig]

On Friday 07 April 2006 6:21 pm, Kam Leo wrote:
> On 07 Apr 2006 12:19:08 +0200, Ingemar Nilsson <init at pdc.kth.se> wrote:
> > "Franck Y " <franck110 at gmail.com> writes:
> > > For my part i killed likely 15 Cd's.
> >
> > I suggest that you do not use CD-R's but rather CD-RW's, since then any
> > problems with the burn could be mitigated by a rewrite without costing
> > you extra CD's.
> >
> > Regards
> > Ingemar
>
> Some older drives are only capable of reading 1x-4x CD-RW media. I
> have had mixed results with the 4x-12x and 12x CD-RW.  Similarly, some
> DVD drives will not accept or cannot read reliably DVD-R media but
> will read DVD+R.
>
> Burn speed is always an issue. Unless you are using the same drive on
> which you burned the software I would recommend that you burn at one
> half the maximum speed of the media/drive.
I have also had issues with certain  (actually many) cdrom drives failing to 
read during long sessions heating up and not functioning properly.

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