Booting shipped live CDs?

[Paul O'Malley]

Matt Galvin wrote:

>>I just got my free shipment of Ubuntu CDs.  Unfortunately, NONE of the
>>live CDs that were shipped can successfully boot and get stuck at
>>"Retrieving casper" (the part immediately after I choose my language).
>>After half a minute of funny noises coming from my drive while at
>>that stage, I am told there is a read error and to retry.  So, I
>>retried...10 times and it never gets past that stage.  I see no
>>visible scratches or anything on any of the CDs yet they all fail at
>>exactly the same spot when booted.
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>>I had no problems booting Ubuntu's live CD that I downloaded straight
>>from www.ubuntu.com and burned myself onto a CDR.
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>>Did anyone else have this same problem with their shipped live CDs?
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>Yes, none of my live CD's work either :(
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With regard to the live CDs md5sum them and if right and burn again
telling the applicaiton that it is a bootable CD.
With regard to  broken  Hoary  CDs I got several broken ones recently
(in fact I have yet to get a fully working one but it is possible even
with this to survive and install.
(A) start install but choose at the very first chance the word [server]
as the type of install.
when this is done
(B) then remove the CD from apt repositries
    this involves editing /etc/apt/sources.list the command you could use is
    sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
    put a '#' in front of the first line.
(C) run the command
    apt-get update
(D) run the command
    apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
(E) add other packages
(F) repeat (E) until you have all the packages you want
(G) enjoy your new Ubuntu system

Regards,

Paul O'Malley