Gutsy will not recognize dvdr

Alex Janssen alex at ourwoods.org
Sun Nov 18 05:31:08 UTC 2007


Ed Miller said the following on 11/17/2007 06:51 PM:
> I am going to try a re-install of Ubuntu, I believe something has not 
> been installed properly. I tried installing each of the different piix 
> files and updating the kernel and then removing the piix files. But it 
> didn't work. Plus my laptop takes about 5 minutes to reboot and it never 
> did that with the original install of Gutsy.
>
> Ed
>
>   
Ed,
Before you reinstall, run the "check CD for errors" program from the 
boot menu.  A while back I was having all sorts of trouble and found out 
the CD image was bad. A re-burn fixed it.  Run md5sum on your iso image 
to be sure it matches, too.
Best,
Alex

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