Re: [PLUG] 2000pro installation woe

On 10/15/05, Christopher M. Jones <cjones@partialflow.com> wrote:

You are and you aren't encouraging piracy ;-) The disks I have are
illegally copied, but I'm only using them to reinstall an os for which
the guy already has a license but no media.

And yes, I am sure. I've worked with this machine before. He has never
been able to read a cdr, and I couldn't make it work either. I've run
into it before working on older laptop machines.

I'll give the slower speed option a try, but lets assume that doesn't
work. How do I swing this?

On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 15:59 -0400, Pat Regan wrote:
> Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> > 2. My media is all pirated and on CDR
>
> Are you sure about this?  I can't remember ever running into a CD-ROM
> drive that couldn't read any CDR discs...  I have run into drives
> (usually audio cd players) that would only read certain types of CDR.
> At the time, if a drive wouldn't read a blue  CDR I would try a green or
> gold disc.  :p
>
> You might want to just try different media, and maybe even burning at a
> lower speed (I have heard of people needing to do this, but I have never
> seen it myself).
>
> I hope I am not encouraging piracy :p.
>
> Pat
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