ubuntu 8.10/9.04

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Fri, 6/26/09, William Smith <wscs-cc at msn.com> wrote:

> From: William Smith <wscs-cc at msn.com>
> Subject: ubuntu 8.10/9.04
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Friday, June 26, 2009, 8:55 PM
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> I am new to Ubuntu
> and need some help.  Tried to load 8.10 from cd. 
> Installed up to line 132.784602 buffer I/O error on dev sdb,
> logical block 0.  Froze there. 
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> Tried to install 9.04
> from cd.  Installed up to detecting file systems. 
> Received error report: input/output error during read on dev
> sdb.  Using intel quad 2, 8mb memory,
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> maxtor
> 6y200p0 hard drive.
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> thanks  
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Just some thoughts:

1. /dev/sdb may be going bad or have some bad blocks.
2. I presume you are using the live CD rather than the Alternate CD.  May have better luck with the alternate.
3.Did you burn your own CD? Run the md5sum on the downloaded iso file. Run the md5sum on the burnt CD and run the integrety check on  the CD bootup.
4. you may have a bad CD or failing drive.
5. Check /var/log for installation errors
and report any relevant info
6. Better help could be given with more explicit info from you. 

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net