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&gt; From: ale-bounces at ale.org [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> at ale.org] On 
&gt; Behalf Of Jeb Barger
&gt; Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 2:24 PM
&gt; To: ale at ale.org
&gt; Subject: [ale] Install Issues with my inspiron 8500
&gt; 
&gt; I have been trying to installing MDK10 on my inspiron 8500.  
&gt; Things go fine except when it asks for the second cd.  It 
&gt; will tell me that it is not found, once I put it in of 
&gt; course.  I thought it was just a bad cd, so I burnt another 
&gt; one same problem.  I have also tried different distro's they 
&gt; all have problems when I asked to switch cd's.  I have also 
&gt; tried burning the cd's using a different burner.  Any ideas?
&gt; 
&gt; The only distro I have had luck with was a Fedora boot DVD 
&gt; (didn't need to switch disks and it worked).

Check the MD5 sum on the ISO you downloaded and make sure the download was
complete. I downloaded FC2 disk 2 the other day, successfully I thought, and
burned the CD only to find missing packages. The packages were there, but
reported as 0 bytes in size. Downloaded via http with Firefox 0.8 on WinXP
and burned with Roxio on same. I'd seen this happen before with Bittorrent
downloads, so I picked up on it pretty quick. MD5 sum failed verification,
so I extracted the ISO to a folder with WinRAR and discovered that a number
of packages were 0 bytes in size. A fresh download took care of things.
Never seen any quirky drive problems on the 8500, and I have loaded RH9 and
Slackware on quite a few of them. If it is a problem with the drive, then as
you said, the DVD is the way to go unless you feel like performing a network
install.

--
Jonathan


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