CentOS - May 2008 - Re: Curiosity when installing CentOS 5.1 in addition to W98 & WXP - SOLVED

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:47 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>
wrote:
>  > on 5-12-2008 10:17 AM MHR spake the following:
>  >
>
> >  It might not have finished the install, and something made it reboot
before
>  > it  had written the grub records.
>  >
>
>  I figure I'll just start over and sit there to watch while I read a
>  book or something.  (sigh)
>
Turns out it looks like the DVD didn't burn quite right (even though
K3B verified it) and the install aborted about 2/3 of the way through.

Thanks!

mhr

MHR wrote:
> Turns out it looks like the DVD didn't burn quite right (even though
> K3B verified it) and the install aborted about 2/3 of the way through.
>   

if you have a newer '16X' or whatever DVD burner, tell your burning 
software to go no faster than 8X, and your disks will be 100% more reliable


the higher speed modes are 'constant angular velocity', while the 8X 
mode is 'constant linear velocity', and seems to generate far fewer 
errors on the last (outer) part of the disk.    I've found this to be 
true with various model burners and various types of blank media.