On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:00:46AM -0600, Michael Hicks wrote: > Ken McNamara <conmara@grandcanyonhiker.com> wrote: > > > > Hello to everyone. > > > > I just got my first set of Debian CDs. > > > > They read fine on 2 different PCs - but 2 different Sparc 20's can't > > read them. Each Sparc reads CDs just fine until I put these in. > > > > Has anyone seen anthing like this? Any suggestions? > > The Sparc 20 CD-ROM drive is so slow (1x, 150kB/s) that you'd be better off > mounting the disk on another machine and exporting via NFS, or making the > files accessible via FTP or HTTP. If you're installing, just make some > boot floppies and install over the network. This reminded me of another issue I've had with older CDROM drives (Sun and otherwise): Many (most?) older drives will not read CD-RW disks. Do you know if the CD's are mastered, CD-R's, or CD-RW's? Later, Rob.
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