OT-Cobalt Install CD

[Alexander Apprich]

Mark Sargent wrote:
> Alexander Apprich wrote:
> 
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> Mark Sargent wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am posting this just to see if anyone has a clue. I got the 
>>> following errors when trying to do a netboot to reinstall on a Cobalt 
>>> RaQ. Anyway, I know it's not Fedora specific, but thought maybe 
>>> someone may understand the error stuff, as the Cobalt OS is a Linux 
>>> based one.
>>>
>>> hdc : bad access : block = 1067788, Count = 2
>>> end_request : I/O error, dev 16:00, sector 1067788
>>>
>>
>> Seems to me like this harddisk is going bad.
>>
>>> Thanx if anyone can steer me in the right direction. Cheers.
>>>
>>> Mark Sargent.
>>>
>> Alex
>>
> Hi All,
> 
> Alex, that output was from the PC that the device is getting the OS 
> from. The device and PC are seperated by a cisco switch. It's not the CD 
> itself, is it.? I only just created it with k3b, using the iso image 
> found here,
> http://ftp.cobalt.sun.com/pub/iso/

Okay, didn't know hdc is your CD/DVD drive...
Could you try burning the ISO again w/ lower speed?! Maybe w/ a
different type of CD-R?!
My /var/log/messages is full of this kind of I/O error stuff because of
vmware.

> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Mark Sargent.
> 
Alex