Hoary live CD fails on laptop

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:06:36PM +0100, Carl Devos wrote:
> I've downloaded the hoary-live-i386.iso from 10th March 2005 and got
> the following problem:
> after choosing the language, location and keyboard I get the following error:
> 
> There was a problem reading data from the CDROM. Please make sure it
> is in the drive. If retrying does not work, you should check the
> integrity of your CDROM.
> Failed to copy file from CDROM. Retry?
> 
> Which doesn't work when I retry.
> 
> Checking the CD-ROM(s) integrity gives:
> 
> The ./pool/main/l/linux-source-2.6.10/acpi-modules-2.6.10-4-386-di_2.6.10-25.2_i386.udeb
> file failed the MD5 checksum verification. Your CD-ROM or this file
> may have been corrupted.

This generally means that the drive isn't able to read the media properly.
Try burning at a lower speed or using a different batch of media.

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 - mdz