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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 7 Jun 2005 10:45:16 -0500
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The 500mb should all be on disc 1.

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Jain, Vivek wrote:

> HI Connie,
> 
> We tried to do a installer media check on disk 2 and we get an 
> 
> "Error
> 
> Unable to read the disc checksum form the primary volume descriptor. This
> probably means the disc was created without adding the checksum."
> 
> 
> As far as I know, we didn't do anything different when burning disk1 or
> disk2. We burned the disks on a Windows XP machine using NERO (burn rate was
> set at 8X - minimum).

I assume this was a "image" burn.

-connie
> 
> Also, we managed to boot up the system just using disk1 alone. Bare-bones -
> no X11, no nothing. Not clear to me how to access stuff over the network.
> 
> Any advice will be appreciated.
> 
> vivek
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jain, Vivek
> To: 'Connie Sieh '
> Cc: [log in to unmask] '
> Sent: 6/7/2005 11:22 AM
> Subject: RE: problems with second disk of SL3.0.3
> 
> Hi COnnie,
> 
> We only checked disk1 with the  "installer" media check. We can try
> disk2 also. 
> 
> At the moment, we chose custom but didn't check-off any packages; claims
> the size of the install will be approx. 500 MB; hopefully it is all on
> disk1.
> 
> thanks
> vivek
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Connie Sieh
> To: Jain, Vivek
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: 6/7/2005 11:18 AM
> Subject: Re: problems with second disk of SL3.0.3
> 
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Jain, Vivek wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > We are trying to install SL3.0.3 on a machine. We are using the Custom
> > install setting. After the first CD was read, it asked for the second
> one.
> > For some reason, it keeps complaining that we are not putting in the
> correct
> > CD. We have used CD's burned on two different machines. We checked the
> > md5sum for the downloaded image - it looks fine. We are checking the
> md5sum
> > of the image as burned on the disk (it's taking some time).
> > 
> 
> Are you checking the cd with the "installer" media check?
> 
> > Our CD drive is OK - we just checked it by reading disk1 again.
> > 
> > In any case, is it possible to setup a configuration where we only use
> disk
> > 1 for now. We can add in the other packages later (via network, for
> > instance).
> 
> Only select the bare minimum with custom.
> 
> > 
> > vivek
> > 
> 
> -connie sieh
> 

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