[Wylug-help] mandrake installation problem - please help

[James Holden]

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Ciro A. Soto wrote:
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| installed (most of the list). The installer started to copy files from
the CDs but
| several files were not unable to be installed. I ignored these
messages and
| continued installing. It took several minutes (20 to 30 mins)
installing software
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Ciro,

It's sometimes the case that CD drives can't read the last few sectors
of the track on a CD.

When burning ISO images, use the 'pad track' option in your burning
software to append some zeros to the end of the track data in case this
happens. If you're using the *nix cdrtools package, the command line
option is 'padsize=160k' or similar.

160k is what I use and have never had any problems yet. The cdrtools
default pad size of 30k, which you can enable with the '-pad' option,
doesn't seem enough. If I don't pad the track, sometimes the disk isn't
completely readable.

Regards,

James


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