Subject: Re: Bad CD?
From: Bo Brinkman (brinkman@cs.princeton.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 27 2001 - 22:41:19 MDT
Well, I don't know how to make the magic work, even if you did have a
Mac with a CD burner. To be honest, I don't know what the YDL2 installer
expects. With older installers (like YDL 1.2.1) you could copy the
ramdisk of the intaller and the kernel of the installer to MacOS, and
use the BootX bootloader to boot that kernel+ramdisk. Then you would be
able to access the non-magical CD (the one you burned) and use it as
install media.
Might be worth a try, though the best solution, of course, is to get new
install media from YDL.
cbsled@ncia.net wrote:
>
> On 08/26/01, at 02:09 PM, Bo Brinkman <brinkman@cs.princeton.edu> said:
>
> >One idea: if you have enough HD space on the Mac, copy the CD to
> >the mac hard drive. Any place on the CD that has a CRC error should prevent
> >you from copying the file, so it should become apparent which files you need
> >to DL. ...
>
> >Of course I have only tried this process on an Intel machine with RedHat,
> >but.. I don't see why it *shouldn't* work. :)
>
> That was what I used too, since my burner is attached to one. It produced a nice concise list of 3 defective files.
> The enscript, esound, and exmh packages on the CD are all *much* smaller than the versions on the ftp site.
> Unfortunately, my newly "fixed" CD isn't recognized by the install program. I'm guessing this is because it wasn't burned on a Mac, so some Mac hocus-pocus is missing or rendered useless. I simply copied everything back onto a CD using xcdroast. The Powerbook wouldn't boot from the original CD, so I didn't think there was anything special about it.
>
> Workarounds?
> Fixes?
> ( keeping in mind that I don't have a Mac with a burner)
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