Re: Re: Re: BDI question

Richard

The only thing I'd add to Bill's excellent help is to run the checksum
file on that download to be certain that it matches the checksum on the
download site's html page. This is a big file and one bit off can do
real damage. We've seen several downloads that missed the mark.

Ray

>    From: "William Scalione" <wscalione@...>
> Subject: Re: Re: BDI question
>
> Richard,
>
> As far as the 2.16 version goes, it sounds like, and I'm just guessing
> here, some older cdrom drives will not read a CDRW disk. You may need
> to put that on a regular CDR disk. Some even have a hard time with CDR
> disks.
>
> I don't have a 2.11 version here but a 2.16 version should have all of
> the directories you mentioned as well as a one more so it sounds like
> the 2.11 disk is probably ok. Is the drive a SCSI or an older one with
> it's own interface card, or is it a regular IDE drive? Has anyone ever
> done an install from that 2.11 disk so you know it is definitly good?
> Sounds like your CDRom drive does not like the disk to me. I would try
> to make a 2.16 disk on a regular CDR disk, not a CDRW disk and try it
> again. If that does not work I would take the cdrom drive from your
> good machine and temporarly install it in the BDI machine and try that.
>
> Anyone else want to pipe in here and offer any suggestions, feel free.
>
> Bill