[SWLUG] Installing Linux - Cardiff

[Gerald Davies]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:29:44 +0000, Dick Porter <dick at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> I've often seen a Suse install (9.1, sles, NLD) randomly fail to install
> packages from the cd.  You just have to keep hitting "retry" over and
> over.  I did wonder if it was a dodgy cdrom on my test machine, but no
> other distro seemed to have a problem.
> 
> - Dick

thats because you didn't scratch the CDs and say "Die $Distro, Die'
unlike Suse ;-)

i've had the same problem with other distros and i always attribute it
to dodgy CD/Mirrors/Hardware.