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I have an old i586 box and I would like to install Arch on it (I'm posting here because it's not really i586 related). I got an i586 iso and burned it on a Memorex brand CD-RW. The problem is the old CD-drive doesn't detect the CD. The old CD-drive works, it detected a music CD. The CD seems fine as I could mount it on my laptop and see the files on it. I guess that the old CD-drive have problem detecting RW CD's. Would using another brand or using a CD-R help? Any ideas?
Thanks.
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Try a CD-R. From my experience you could get problems with CD-RWs in anything older than 16x or 24x drives.
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Or you could try an old 1-4X CDRW, although many modern drives would refuse to burn it.
Microshaft delenda est
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speed if you can burn it slower may work.... if not try a different way to load it ...
network ... floppy (j/k) or switch hd's, via usb etc....
HTH
Mr Green
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scarecrow: Actually it was a 1-4x CD-RW.
I tried with a CD-R with 4x burning speed and "Mode2" for data mode and it works. The CD gets detected but doesn't boot. It could be because of the low RAM (16MB). I have another box with ~40MB RAM. I'll try with that one later. Or maybe with floppies (if there are i586 floppies).
Thanks for the input.
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On an old thinkpad I had to use a boot floppy to start DSL ... no CDrom boot up
of course if you can get bootloader in then should be no problem
Mr Green
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