--- David <david.is@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Thanks for your idea Tom,
I'll keep this email as insurance because
> someone
> offered to copy the disc for me. Appreciate your help - keep the
> faith. :-)
>
> -David
Another idea to try for reference if you have the disk space is to
copy the cdroms as isos to a partition (not to be formated /home
maybe)
Then try a HD install.
This does sometimes work, as often the RH install will not be able to
read a CD but a functioning system will.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Allender" <txa99c@Cs.Nott.AC.UK>
> To: <nottingham@lists.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 9:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [nottingham] RH 7.3
>
>
> > > Chaps, does anyone have a spare Red Hat 7.3 disc 1? I
> downloaded and =
> > > burned all 3 install ISOs but after a couple of uses I had to
> do another
> =
> > > reinstall and the disc now apparently has an error on it
> meaning it =
> > > can't install the dev-3.3-4 RPM. I did a mediacheck on it and
> it =
> > > passed, but it still doesn't work. I don't have broadband
> anymore so =
> > > another download is out of the question. I'd be perfectly
> willing to =
> > > trade a blank CD-R for a copy of disc 1. Any takers??
> >
> > I would help if I were still in Nottingham - I run Red Hat 7.3
> myself.
> >
> > You could try building the iso from the burnt CD using 'dd' and
> then
> fixing it
> > up with 'rsync'.
> >
> > mount /mnt/cdrom
> >
> > dd if=/dev/hda of=valhalla-i386-disc1.iso bs=512k conv=noerror
> >
> > rsync -avvpP
>
rsync://redhat.dulug.duke.edu/redhat-ftp/redhat/linux/7.3/en/iso/i386/valhal
> la-i386-disc1.iso .
> >
> > Both these commands are untested (I'm not with my machine right
> now...) so
> > they made need fixing / correcting. Rsync should use far less
> bandwidth
> than
> > downloading the full iso and so it shouldn't take a lifetime over
> dialup.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Tom.
> >
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