Hoary live CD fails on laptop

Carl Devos zongonation at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 11:26:31 UTC 2005


On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:18:00 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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.

Indeed, it seems to be that.
I tried the same LiveCD in another computer and it works fine.

> Try burning at a lower speed or using a different batch of media.

I think the drive is broken (I tried others LiveCDs) :(

Thanks for all the input,

-- 
Carl




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