Subject: Re: Bad CD?
From: rob (rob@prometheusmedia.com)
Date: Mon Aug 27 2001 - 23:08:04 MDT
On Monday 27 August 2001 09:56 pm, you 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)
I used ROxioToast on windows to burn netbsd.iso for ppc - that worked fine -
if you have access to that, that would work.
Rob
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