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

[Derek Broughton]

James Tappin wrote:

> 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.
 
Absolutely - but when I was writing the image to my CDs, they always failed
the media self-check! (in fact, _sometimes_ a CD that fails the check can
still be used, if it only has errors in package files that aren't needed
for your configuration, but risking it can cause you to go through a lot of
work for nothing)
-- 
derek