ISO boot of latest 8.04

[Verde Denim]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> 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....
>
Ok - so i just yanked 2 copies of Kubuntu 7.04 discs from my work lab which
was used to install 4 other systems. I ran the integrity check on the first
- it shows 24 files bad!
On running the second - 2 files

I'm not sure what this indicates, since the win media installed fine.

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