A bit of general trouble

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Originally Posted by A. Jorge Garcia

Question:
Anyone out there have experience burning mini CD-Rs (185 MB)? I wanted to try out DSL and Slax but I wonder how reliable these little discs are and if you can burn and boot them in a regular CD-R drive.

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Yes, but. I got a pack of Memorex 24x 210MB CD-Rs from the local Fry's, just so I could burn Slax and give it to a friend, and found them to be a tad bit more touchy than regular CD-Rs to burn. They were more sucseptible to becoming coasters due to memory issues (like burning them after the computer's run for days w/o rebooting, or with too many apps going at the same time. This was using Nero on Win2K, and Linux seems a bit more stable than Windows when it comes to CD burning, so YMMV.)

If they burn fine, they seem to work fine in any CD tray with the "dimple" in the middle that fits them. But they're about twice as expensive as those TDK's from Costco, so unless you need the "coolness" factor or just have to have a CD that'll fit in your shirt pocket, I'd stick with the TDK's. (I buy those too, and they're great.)

Linux Coasters :!: LOL

You guys crack me up...

So, I guess the big question is...

Is Linux responsible for the invention of Coasters, or
Did Coasters exist before the invention of Linux :?:

BTW: Those "spindles" are great - they come in handy when burning Knoppix ISO's, it appears. ( you never expected to use all 100 of them to get a good Knoppix Live CD though, huh ??? ) -=- LOL j/k

Nothing like a good sense of humor to liven up the crowd,
Ms. Cuddles

Hmmmmmm, hey TheOddLinguist, thinking about your "continued" problem with your friends computer... Since you mentioned the idea/theory, lets see where it goes...

You mentioned the following before:

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Originally Posted by TheOddLinguist

I apologize for my scarce description; the best way I can describe it is like trying to watch a PAL video on an NTSC system.

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Can this be a possible issue? ( not sure if it could happen, but, if you can use the symptom as an explaination, why couldn't it "actually" be the problem???? )

Just some thoughts,
re: Ms. Cuddles

I did think that the display was the problem, but I tried taking the CD burner (the one that reads the disc fine) and installing it in my brother's computer. The boot worked fine.

So, in general, the boot won't load in my brother's CD-ROM drive. However, I can't think of a reason why.

One question I do have: as I said, when I try to just boot it normally from my brother's CD-ROM drive, an error comes up to the tune of "Couldn't load a KNOPPIX filesystem." When I boot as "failsafe," it seems to bypass this error and then becomes a display problem.

When could be causing this "filesystem" snag in trying to boot normally?


Sincerely,
Christopher David YUDICHAK