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Re: update on Dell install - Solved



On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:32:10 -0500, Tom Poe wrote:

> I have a Dell desktop I picked up from recycle shop at Univ Iowa a few
> years ago.  It had a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive.  I tried downloading Lenny and
> burning to a DVD+RW disc, and that didn't work.  I traveled to my
> daughter's house, and downloaded the netinst-i386.iso to her Dell
> desktop (also a student computer from the Univ Iowa recycle shop.  I
> then burned the .iso file to a CD+RW disc.  It works.  Problem solved.

Glad to see you solved this.

> Not sure why?  I'm a happy camper.  Problem solved. Tom

As I already told you in the other thread, there are some DVD devices 
that are not capable for reading all DVD-RW/DVD+RW media (for instance, I 
have Supermicro SuperServers that suffer this "behaviour" :-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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