Thanks for the help. The YaST verify did it. It convinced them to send me a replacement. John On Thu July 20 2006 13:00, jdd sur free wrote:

John R. Sowden wrote:

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I received the Suse 10.1 DVD with a Linux Magazine recently, and upon attempting to install, I received three 'error reading sector' messaged. When I reported this to the magazine, I got a message explaining the the problem is usually related to the installation, not the media. She (Olga) made no reference to the three "error reading" sectors I cited by number.

In any event, she suggested that I copy all of the files to my hard drive. If I were in 4DOS, no problem. No so in linux. Can someone give the the command line to copy all of the files, including in directories, hidden, and whatever, so I have all of the files on the hard disk. I prefer the command line, so when I get to a bad sector, I will get an error, which I can refer to Olga.

Tia,

in yast (boot the dvd) there is an "verify media" option. use it jdd

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