[SunRescue] CD ROM read error ?

[Mike Nicewonger]

I think your CD-ROM is too fast. I was having the same troubles  loading Red
Hat 6.0 on an SS2, did exactly the same behavior. Connected a slow old Sun
CD-ROM, worked like a charm.

Go figure.

--Mike N
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Price <mark at paradise.raleigh.nc.us>
To: rescue at sunhelp.org <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Date: Thursday, February 03, 2000 7:24 PM
Subject: [SunRescue] CD ROM read error ?


>
>Hi, could someone please give me some advice as to what is happening
>here.
>I have a SS2 w/ 64MB RAM and borrowed an external cdrom drive from a
>friend to load OpenStep 4.2 on.
>
>Well, I set the SCSI cdrom ID to 6, and at the "ok" prompt executed
>"boot cdrom".. it loaded the OpenStep installation, prompted me for
>language choice and then a minute or so later is reads the openstep
>configuration, the says "Starting OpenStep".  Shortly thereafter it
>comes up with the error "Data Access Exception" and I'm dumped back to
>the Sun "ok" prompt.
>
>What is wrong here?  I haven't checked the CDROM drive type or anything
>but I assumed it works since it initially loaded OpenStep, I can check
>to see what kind it is if necessary
>
>thanks
>Mark
>
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>Raleigh, NC  USA    website: http://paradise.raleigh.nc.us
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