Array 6 fails on laptop

John Levin john at technolalia.org
Sat Mar 5 22:05:44 UTC 2005


On 5 Mar 2005, at 19:16, Bill Christiansen wrote:

> It's just a possibility but some older CD drives have trouble reading
> cdr's written at high speed on a newer drive so you could try burning
> the iso slower (say x4 or x8).

Tried burning a live cd at 8 - but same result.

>  I would also experiment with the special
> boot parameters on the install CD (like noapic, nolapic etc) if you
> haven't already.

Tried noapic and nolapic - again, fails to load installer components.

John


>
> On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 13:00 +0000, John Levin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having trouble installing Hoary array 6 on an old 233mhz laptop.
>> Both the live cd and install cd - and the Kubuntu preview - fail with
>> the message:
>> "The failing step is: Load installer components from cd"
>>
>> The cd integrity test fails, with:
>> "./dists/hoary/main/binary-i386/packages failed md5 checksum
>> verification
>>
>> However, I have tried the cds on another (desktop) machine, and they
>> work perfectly.
>>
>> What now?
>
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