ISO boot of latest 8.04

[Dave Woyciesjes]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Verde Denim wrote:
> 
>> I have the 8.04 i386 desktop iso. I'm currently installing win on the box,
>> just to see if it's hardware. This same error has been reported in
>> launchpad (and apparently hasn't been dealt with yet, since I read a few
>> instances of this). I've the various workarounds (pcmcia=nomsi, ide=nodma,
>> remove the splash) but no joy there either. I'll check the md5 of the iso
>> file on my other ubu box and see what that brings, although i've burned
>> three different downloads from three different mirrors, and they all say
>> they have defective files on the cd - using different burners. It's
>> beginning to make me wonder about the iso being distributed.
> 
> Ta Da!  Really, how can you possibly hope to install from defective media? 
> In this case, I can practically guarantee that it _is_ your media.  My last
> install from my own media left me with three bad CDs before I finally gave
> up and wrote the image to a _DVD_.  The iso size pushes the limits of
> what's possible with a CD, and cheap media can't handle it.  It's cheaper
> for me to use 10% of a DVD to hold the image than to burn 10 CDs in the
> hope that _one_ of them will work.

FYI -I have tried burning the CD image to a DVD, and can read the files, 
but couldn't boot from it on the various machines I've got....

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