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To: "Zachary T. Diviak" <ZDiviak@pacbell.net>
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Zachary T. Diviak writes:
> I have a few old 486 computers that I want to install bsd on. The problem is
> for some reason they won't read the burned disks I make from your images on
> your website. They'll read pre made disks, just not the ones I burn. Any
> ideas?

If the CD drives are old enough, they may not read CDR disks. CD-ROM,
CDR and CDRW are all slightly different media, and drives have to have
special hardware (or, in some cases, software) to deal with them.

	<mike


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