CD-ROM reading error in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS installation on ServerWorks board

James Tappin sjt at star.sr.bham.ac.uk
Wed Jun 4 16:26:41 UTC 2008


On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:12:12 -0300
Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

DB> Nicolae Ghimbovschi wrote:
DB> 
DB> > Most likely your install media is bad.
DB> > Try to use other CD.
DB> 
DB> I agree.  I finally gave up writing Ubuntu CDs to my (admittedly
DB> cheap) CDs.  I just write the CD image to DVDs which has worked
DB> flawlessly since my first attempt.

While it's time-consuming, it's well worthwhile running the media
self-check option before installing.

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