diagnosing possible hardware problem

[Felix Miata]

On 06/10/13 15:21 (GMT-0700) NoOp apparently typed:

> 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.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I feel it's the job of the installer to do
the source verification, not me, when I download nothing more than an
installation kernel and initrd before turning the job over to the installer
to install via ftp or http from a public mirror. Fedora, SUSE and Mandriva
don't impose that obligation.
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