Troubles getting F9 : SOLVED

[Beartooth Sciurivore]

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.

	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.

	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.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
C5; D4; F8; P3; U7.10; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.