install trouble: bad d-i Packages file

[David McGaffin]

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 13:36 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: 
> Assuming that it's a CD-R or CD-RW, it is not uncommon for some CD-ROM
> drives to have difficulty reading these discs, especially when they are
> written at high speed.  Try writing the disc at 1x or 2x speed, and using
> CD-R instead of CD-RW (if you are using -RW).

Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried recording on a CD-R at 1x speed,
with the same result.  The thing is, the error message is entirely
correct:

user.info.anna[42767]: WARNING **: bad d-i Packages file
user.info.anna[42767]: grep: /cdrom/dists/stable/Release: Not a
directory

I even tried using a different CD burner, with the same result on my
Dell laptop.  However, I am able to install on a newer Dell desktop.  

Is there anything else I can try or any reason to hope that the official
release will somehow magically fix this problem?

Thanks.

- david