diagnosing possible hardware problem

[NoOp]

Felix Miata wrote:
> On 06/10/13 22:23 (GMT+0200) Dotan Cohen apparently typed:
> 
>> Felix, did you verify your installation media?
> 
> No idea how to do that for my primary installation media, which is
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/, from which I download the installation kernel
> and initrd for network/ftp install via grub HD boot. I did a few installs
> from CD, but most from ftp. The results were similar for both type installs,
> but with more problems getting installed at all from verified CDs that work
> fine in other systems than from network installs. Similar problems with both
> dapper and edgy, all of which is why I suspect some wierd hardware issue(s)
> with either these old slot 1 motherboards or old UDMA33 or older HDs.

>From that link you'll most likely go to a mirror such as:
http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/CDs/dapper/

If you look in that directory you'll find MD5SUMS.
http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/CDs/dapper/MD5SUMS

The OpenOffice site
(http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/using_md5sums.html) has a
nice/simple writeup on how to verify MD5SUMs; scroll down to the "This
is how you verify MD5 Checksums under Linux:" part.