[ale] Install Issues with my inspiron 8500

[Jim Philips]

On Monday 06 September 2004 02:24 pm, Jeb Barger wrote:
> I have been trying to installing MDK10 on my inspiron 8500.  Things go
> fine except when it asks for the second cd.  It will tell me that it is
> not found, once I put it in of course.  I thought it was just a bad cd,
> so I burnt another one same problem.  I have also tried different
> distro's they all have problems when I asked to switch cd's.  I have
> also tried burning the cd's using a different burner.  Any ideas?
>
> The only distro I have had luck with was a Fedora boot DVD (didn't need
> to switch disks and it worked).

Maybe there are issues with your CD drive. What kind is it? Have you done any 
searches based on the hardware involved? You may find that there are 
parameters you need to add to properly recognize your drive at boot time.