[Dayzd]

This may sound silly to you, but I am wondering whether I found the source of all my problems. When I installed the first cd from the clone image, I had no problems, but when I installed with the cdrw media, I noticed something peculiar. The last illustration that is supposed to be displayed during installment did not pop up. Instead, all I saw was the status bar, which acted strangely as though it was having a hard time reading. I then tried using my Pioneer DVD/CD 106S to install and it had the same problems as my Lite-On. It occurred to me that it seemed as though the disk didn't contain ALL the info in the first CD. Maybe that is why I was always stuck on the second disk of installation; the first disk wasn't done loading since my CDRW media didn't have enough space to hold all the files. When having problems, I kept getting an install error message when I installed the second disk. The message read something like "a4 data was not found on second disk." This reinforced my hypothesis. Upon looking at the image file for clone, I saw that my first disk image was 774,695KBs, the second was 810,244KBs and the third was 815,752KBs. My disks only contain 700 MB of space. Looking at the properties of the first burned disk, I saw that it only had 688 MB of space and no free space! All the problems that I have had and all the coasters I have made may have been due to the stupid media I was using. I don't know whether the result of the burned image file is supposed to match the size of the image file itself, but I think I'm on to something. Is it possible that the makers of Mafia, in an attempt to foil morons like myself, used higher disk space media? My Memorex media says 700MB right on the disks. Thanks for your patience for reading this long and painful post. Please reply with feedback!