Feisty install No Joy

[ZephyrQ]

Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2007/06/28 20:29 (GMT-0500) ZephyrQ apparently typed:
> 
>> I'm trying to do a fresh install of Feisty on top of Dapper.  When I 
>> boot to the CD, it always freezes when I want to manually partition 
>> during install. (this happened several times)
> 
>> I tried safe graphics mode, it froze before this.
> 
> Did you try to boot the CD into self test mode first before trying to
> install from it? Sometimes the only way to get a good burn of a full
> media iso file is to hold the speed down from maximum. I use an alias
> "Burn" for burning iso files, which burns at 24X.
	
	Yes, I did this.  I will burn another with a slower burn.


>> Am I missing a simple step?
> 
> Are you downloading with a web browser? Web browsers are awful
> downloaders. Use a downloader like wget and when a connection gets
> broken it can be resumed instead of started from scratch. Always run
> md5sum before burning.

	Thank you.  I guess I've never done the md5sum before, but I will try it.