Feisty install No Joy

[NoOp]

On 06/28/2007 08:30 PM, ZephyrQ wrote:
> 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.

I've found that 8/10X is wise for older CD drives. I have several that
won't read above those speeds. On the alternate CD is an option to test
the CD; in addition to md5sum I always run the CD test as well just to
be sure that the drive is reading the CD properly.