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09-29-2007, 12:12 AM	#1
newbiesforever Senior Member Registered: Apr 2006 Location: Iowa Distribution: Debian distro family Posts: 2,378 Rep:	are scratches probably responsible for a liveCD going bad? My MEPIS liveCD is scratched all over, because I'm clumsy and tend to drop discs easily. Is that the most likely reason why I am suddenly getting cloop error messages (I don't recall getting them before) and why the CD has recently been refusing to reinstall MEPIS on the same HD partition?

09-29-2007, 12:16 AM	#2
PatrickNew Senior Member Registered: Jan 2006 Location: Charleston, SC, USA Distribution: Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu, RHEL Posts: 1,148 Blog Entries: 1 Rep:	That'd be my guess.

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