Re: OT: my new PC rocks!!

From: The Half A Wannabee ("The)
Date: 01/04/04 

Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 23:12:42 -0800

"Ed Beroset" <beroset@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:0DGJb.6752$6B.5339@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> The Half A Wannabee wrote:
> > "Ed Beroset" <beroset@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> > news:CcAJb.6261$6B.1185@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> >
> >>Beth wrote:
> >>
> >>>Ed Beroset wrote:
> >
> >
> >>FYI, my guess as to the answer to your install problem is that you just
> >>need to burn the CDs at a different speed.
> >>
> >
> >
> > I used 2x, took forever.
>
> Somebody gave me some RedHat 9 CDs, which he had made on a Windows box,
> but they failed the media check, so I downloaded the images, burned them
> to CD under Linux and those worked. If you think burning them takes
> forever, *downloading* is even longer! Still, it's not my time being
> wasted -- it's the computer's. I don't really care particularly whether
> it runs from midnight to 6:00 or from midnight to 1:00. Either way,
> it's done by the time I rise in the morning.
>
> Ed
>
Didn't think it was a problem either, just wanted to add that piece of info
to my installation "story" before.
Which was a complete success.

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