Chris
Mark Gray wrote:
I tried to copy the 9.2 installation DVD to disk using two different DVD readers on running 9.1 systems, and they both failed with read errors part way through. Then I booted up the rescue system from the 9.2 DVD and copied the DVD to hard disk without any problems. To my mind this shows that the problem is caused by an interrupt related bug in the IDE driver.
Just my $0.02 worth.
Terry Eck
writes: I'm wondering if what you say about the "interrupted related bug" caused what I saw twice yesterday. As a normal practice I backup my system to my second hard disk using rsysc. The load average was running at about 2.0 when the system froze. I had to reset the computer. So far I have been able to freeze the computer twice and both times I was doing heavy disk to disk copying using rsysc. This is on 9.2.
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 18:07 -0500, Mark Gray wrote:
That sounds very much like the problem. On one of the computers it was impossible to kill -9 the cp process and it had to be rebooted. (That was with the 9.1 system reading the 9.2 DVD.) As a further note on the double layer DVD problem, I just tried installing 9.2 on yet a third computer using the DVD and it failed to even boot.
Chris
I found the answer to this (but I can't remember where). Put disc 2 in and when it asks is this disc 1 put dvd1 in your dvd drive and click ok. This worked for me.
I have already installed on that machine using the cd version. But I doubt it would have helped on my machine anyway, because it still could not reliably read the double layer DVD. In fact when the fan came on while reading the third CD it hung solid, and I had to power it off and reboot to continue the install. I am in the process of verifying that the install was totally successful (looks good so far). (9.1, 9.0 and several 8.*'s installed from the DVD and worked great on that computer (including acpi on 9.0)).