[kwlug-disc] linux on old hardware

[Charles McColm]

Insurance Squared Inc. wrote:
> When I boot from DVD, it dies at varying points.  Sometimes right 
> away, sometimes it reads for a bit then dies, sometimes I get the 
> initial install screen then it dies with something like "isolinux: 
> disk error 80, ax=4210"
Sounds like your DVD drive. I recently had a client whose DVD drive ran 
well enough to allow us to install a number of programs, but refused to 
work with a CD that worked in other drives. We added a slave drive that 
allowed us to install the program that wouldn't load in his DVD.

Cheers,

Charles