Re: [SLUG] Fedora Core 3 fail on xorg-x11

From: William Coulter (wrcoulter30@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jan 28 2005 - 16:46:59 EST


I downloaded FC3 and I had no problems. What kind of cd burnner and what kind of cd drive are you
using? I have had problems with some older cd drives. They have a hard time reading the cd's I
burn.

William

--- Larry Brown <larry.brown@dimensionnetworks.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 14:23, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> > > Has anyone seen this? I have googled and only see complaints about
> > > upgrades failing because of this package. I ran the cd tests with
> > > positive results at the beginning of the install, when I get to that
> > > package it fails saying the file is corrupt. I re-downloaded FC3 disk 2
> > > and burned it, then replaced the other disk. It still gives the same
> > > message. Does anyone know how to get around this?
> >
> >
> > Interesting... It took me six burns before I got a disk that passed the
> > initial media check. The first were done at the default 4X. The failed disk 2
> > and disk 3 were reburned at 2X then finally at 1X before the media check
> > passed. I guessed that there was some issues with the package being near the
> > end of the list, and being such a large package. Dunno.
> >
> > BTW, I did have to make a few changes to the /etc/security settings to get
> > Nvidia to work properly.
>
> Hmmm, maybe I'll try burning it at a slower rate. I don't know why the
> burn rate would be any different from one application to another. It
> seems to me that if burning at a high rate for FC2 shouldn't be any
> different than FC3. Binary is Binary right? Hmm. Well, since you
> ultimately got it to work, I'll try some more.
>
> Thanks...

                
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