Re: RW for one-time install.

2003-02-10 Thread Andrew Gorcester
It's just because it's a waste to use a CD-R for a one-time install, and discard it afterwards. There's no technical reason to use a CD-RW - if a CD-R works better for you, use it. -Andrew On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, James Woollen wrote: > dear sir: > > > > why do you recommend the CD-RW for a one-ti

Re: help on set up

2002-12-11 Thread Andrew Gorcester
Your laptop has 8mb of ram, right? Non-upgradable? That's probably the problem. I don't know how large the D/I initrd is, but if it's too much larger than about four or five megs the system could fail silently on load. Dunno what to do about it, though. I've been having similar trouble getting