Colony 3, Test report

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 12:10:12PM +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Matthew Brown wrote:
> 
> Hello Matthew,
> 
> > Colony 3 would not insall on my laptop. It would go through the first 
> > stage then on reboot it would say downloading file 796 of 796 completed 
> > and stall there. This would be at 5% completion it says.
> 
> If you press Alt-F3 ... Alt-F6, are there file-read errors?  Could you
> md5sum the CD and test again.
> 
> Could you also say what Laptop Make/Model you have?
> 
> Long term:  do we have a way to recognise a dude CD rather than hanging?

We have the integrity check, but it takes a very long time to run and so it
isn't done by default.

MacOS X does run their integrity check by default, but then, far fewer users
ever see it.

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 - mdz