[clue-tech] trouble installing Suse

[David Anselmi]

Bruce Ediger wrote:
[...]
> I last installed SuSE at version 7.3 a few years ago.  I could not get
> it to install on a machine with a CD-ROM drive: I had to swap out the
> CD-ROM drive for a CD-RW drive.  After that, it magically worked.

Likely you had CD-R or CD-RW media and an older CDROM drive.  Recordable 
media doen't reflect as well as factory pressed, which was all drives 
were designed for before recordable media was around.

Dave