Am 16.03.2007 13:38 Uhr schrieb "Timothy Murphy" unter
<tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Yesterday I downloaded and burnt the Ubuntu Live CD (6.06),
> and it worked like perfectly on the 4 machines I tried it on.
>
Yes, this is what is called a stable Version of Ubuntu.
> The rather ancient version of Knoppix I have
> also works perfectly on all the machines I have tried it on.
Which is also a Stable Release of Knoppix
> I downloaded and burnt the Fedora-7 Test Live CD some time ago,
> and this does not boot on any machine I've tried it on.
I downloaded both, DVD and CD Torrent of F7 Test 1 and 2.
Both worked like a charm on my machine.
> I asked a few weeks ago if anyone had successfully booted from this CD,
> but I only got advice on how to test the CD;
> nobody replied that they had actually got it to work.
I did not answer but yes, it worked for me.
> In my experience there is something basically wrong
> with the CD reading part of Fedora CDs,
> as many people report problems installing Fedora this way.
Why should it? Did you verify the sha1 summs of your download?
Did you test the same CD on a bunch of identical Machines/CD Drives?
Did you try to burn the CD with 4x speed only? Then test again?
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