Troubles getting F9 : SOLVED

[Rick Stevens]

Beartooth Sciurivore wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2008 17:04:33 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> 
>> I've downloaded the F9 DVD twice so far (with more downloads running on
>> two machines, one using gwget, one bittorrent), once with Opera and once
>> with I disremember what.
> [...]
>> 	Either I'm doing something wrong with woeful consistency -- or
>> [...] Any guesses what I could be fouling up?
> 
> 	I'm now on the T30 laptop that couldn't even see my disks 
> yesterday -- running F9.

Woo HOO!

> 	The secret, with heartfelt thanks to Rick Stevens, seems to have 
> been one little detail I barely thought to mention. If you're using a USB 
> external DVD drive, make sure at every step that it's plugged directly 
> into the machine it's currently working with, not through any sort of 
> hub, switch, or what have you.

I had VERY little to do with it, but you're welcome. :-)

> 	Heeding that, I burned a fresh copy of the gwget download (which 
> had passed all sha1sum tests); moved the drive to the laptop; and 
> rebooted (making sure, of course, it was what the laptop would boot from).
> 
> 	The same drive, containing the same disk, is now plugged into the 
> oldest PC (the ASUS) -- and is happily upgrading that.

Well done, kemosabe!  Glad you got it going.
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