Replacing bad CDRom drive

[Charles Steinkuehler]

Jon Moss wrote:
> I was actually able to boot off the RedHat 9 CD and get part way through the
> text based installation.  Then it would stop.  I used this same set of CDs a
> couple of weeks ago on a different computer at work with no problems.  Since
> it was doing the same thing with the factory RedHat 8 CDs (the same ones I
> installed on this home computer several months ago and which I have used on
> other computers), I guessed it was the drive dying (because the errors were
> inconsistent).

These sort of inconsistent errors are also frequently caused by bad or 
marginal memory.  You might want to grab a copy of memtest86 (a bootable 
floppy) and run a few passes to make sure you don't have a more serious 
problem than a flakey CD-ROM.

http://www.memtest86.com/

-- 
Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net