Christopher Mahmood wrote:
There have been booting problems with some older DVD drives... http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_pioneerdvd.html
Yep, i know about it. Except this one isnt listed there. Its just some really weird DVD drive that i took from HP box that i scrapped. What bugs me - how come 7.1 DVD boots properly and 8.0 isnt.. Different stamping technique? 8( I am following that suggestion to install from CDs of course - but entire point of getting Pro version is to get DVD 8)
I've never heard that our media is especially shitty until now.
Ever saw what CD's from 7.1 looks like after year of use and dozen of complete installations/software package installations? 8) I really missing old CD drives that Sun been using about 10 years ago - ones with caddies.. I know that its partly problem of CD drives that disks getting scratched, but i just noticed that first few CDs from 7.1 nearly worn out where Win2K (just reinstalled it on fresh computer that i built yesterday) still shiny. I.e i am not blaming anyone - just curious why its going like that.