Comment 7 for bug 19048
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| Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote Re: Install from a pressed cd fails (debootstrap) | #7 |
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(In reply to comment #5)
> In my case, the problem was repeatable with different ShipIt CDs, both "new".
> THe install failed in the same place.
While the pressed CDs are much more reliable than CD-Rs, this does happen. I
have on my desk here a stack of 20 shipit CDs which fail in a similar way, but
work when read at a slower speed (using hdparm) or in certain CD-ROM drives.
> I've installed Hoary successfully at least 50 times from ShipIt CDs so I too am
> inclined to attibute the failures to hardware variance but the problem becomes
> manifest when the kernel/module set changes during the install.
Neither the kernel nor the modules change during the base install, only when the
system is rebooted.