[Novalug] new OS for old hdw

Beartooth karhunhammas at Lserv.com
Thu Jan 31 14:53:59 EST 2008


On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Jay Sulzberger wrote:

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> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Beartooth <karhunhammas at Lserv.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Ed James wrote:
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>>> I found a site where somebody put linux with a 2.2.16 kernel 
>>> onto that same model - perhaps the problem isn't the 
>>> distribution, but the kernel version itself?
>>
>> 	That is certainly what the error message means. But now 
>> it refuses to look at anything in the CD drive, even though I 
>> do hear that spin.
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> Have you checked the CD itself?  Sometimes a copy to CD fails, 
> and you get an unreadable CD.

 	All the CDs I'm using are ones I've had success with in 
the past. Could dirt or fingerprints do it??

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