[RULE] Re: From Greenland- Slinky install problem-possibly very

[Jason Bechtel]

On Tuesday, Jan 18, 2005 at  7:48 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield typed:
> On Tuesday 18 January 2005 06:30 pm, Jaxon Abroad wrote:
> > this process I decided that before posting my results I should also
> > follow ????'s advice and check the disc for errors. I wasn't sure what
> > the best method was for doing this. I was pretty sure that by
> 
> IIRC, Red Hat discs usually come with a boot-up utility to check your media.  
> If you boot to the cd-rom, selected an option that says something like "check 
> installation media" or "check media" or "check discs" or "test cd".

FYI:  In case your machine cannot boot directly from a CD-ROM (old
BIOS), you can use a Smart Boot Manager floppy.  It's hard to find and
development seemed to stop in 2000, but because it's open source (and
useful), it lives on in several places:

http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net (last version = 3.7r1)
http://btmgr.webframe.org (last version = 3.6r4)

It's also distributed with Slackware.

Jason


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