Subject: Re: bad discs / can't burn my own
From: Joe (joerex@pacbell.net)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 19:09:58 MDT
Hi,
Instead of first mounting the disc image, simply drag the disc image as you
downloaded it WITHOUT mounting it first onto Toast and then burn. There is
a mac as well as a iso portion of the cd.
joe
on 9/18/01 5:58 PM, Paul Cézanne at pZ@MacSpeech.com wrote:
> I'm installing yellowdoglinux 2.0 for PPC (for the first time, but I do have
> significant unix experience with 4.2bsd!) and I just got the following error
> from the installer:
>
> Bug Report Traceback
>
> OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/tmp/root/etc/'
>
> File "/usr/lib/yi/mount.py", line 505, in Write
> os.mkdir(self.installPath + '/etc');
>
> File "/usr/lib/yi/mount.py', line 335, in configure
> return self.Write(face)
>
> File "/usr/lib/yi/template.py", line 56, in __call__
> return self.configure(args)
>
> This is being installed on my 2nd disk which is linux only. I made a 10MB
> autoloader partition, a 256MB swap, and a 18.8GB root partition
>
> Now from reading the articles on the web site, it sounds like YDL let a bad
> bunch of discs out. Oh well, so what can I do NOW while I wait for them to
> ship me new ones? (I tried putting a Zip disc in as someone suggested, that
> didn't help at all) Also, I bought the CD at a local store, will this affect
> how they ship me a new one?
>
> Also, I was unable to burn my own CDs, this is why I bought the disc today. I
> tried Toast 4.1 and 5.0.1 (both non-lite), I mounted the iso image with
> DiskCopy fine, but when I dragged it to the toast window, I got a -108 (out of
> memory error) so when I boosted Toast's memory to 150M and tried it again, the
> same thing happened, it just took a few minutes before I got the error.
>
> Can anyone help me please?
>
> Thanks!
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