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to: Mike N.
from: Robert Comer
date: 2007-03-17 19:05:18
subject: Re: Mandriva on VPC

From: "Robert Comer" 

VPC2004 could only read a DVD ISO up to only 2.2g, and it sometimes had
trouble with real media too.  VPC2007 fixed that.  Still, real DVD media
has had a lot of problems reported lately, and definitely not with just
virtualization software.

--
Bob Comer


"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:o8oov29o0970kvuallkakboig9lq2imeq5{at}4ax.com...
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:40:20 -0400, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote:
>
>>If I had my guess it would be a slightly dodgy burned DVD causing the
>>problem. Anyway, I'd try to install from the ISO directly, rather than
>>real
>>DVD's, and if he's installing from ISO's already, try real DVD's...
>
>  I had a problem with Fedora FC6 DVD being unreadable by Virtual PC 2004-
> although the DVD validated with MD5, etc.   I eventually downloaded the CD
> images and installed from that.
>
>   Virtual PC 2004 was able to install from an FC5 DVD.

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