Not the usual installation media check failures

[Eric Donkersloot]

On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 17:21 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 12:37 -0500, Erich Carlson wrote:
> > I've run into this on occasion, turned out to be finger prints on the
> > CD. Cleaned them off, and installed just fine.
> 
> On that note, why do people smear their fingers all over the optical
> surface of discs?  Or scuff them about on the desk?
> 
> Discs are not as robust as some people think, and they come with
> warnings on the labels to treat them with care.  Writable discs seem
> even more susceptible to finger prints than pressed discs.  And you
> can't always clean off what you do to them.  Leave muck on it long
> enough, and it can chemically react.
> 
> If people abuse their media, they deserve to have problems.

Thank you for the lecture, very useful indeed.

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