16 Dec
2002
16 Dec
'02
9:25 p.m.
I recently had a very similar problem. Under the guidance of Steve McIntyre, I went through the following sequence of attempted solutions, in increasing order of drastic-ness. Sadly, it was the last and most drastic one that worked.
1 Use a different set of CDs that were written more slowly. 2 Use a single DVD-ROM instead of the CD set. 3 Replace the IDE cable to the CD/DVD-ROM drive. 4 Replace the CD/DVD-ROM drive.
Oops. There I go advising someone to mess around inside their computer again. Please, if possible, make sure you back up all your valuable data before doing this.
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Dan Hatton
http://www.bib.hatton.btinternet.co.uk/dan/
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 franardia@the-fastest.net wrote:
> HI everyone again.
> I had been trying to install Debian 3.0 on my new machine. Having
> succeeded on the old one I thought there would have been no problems at
> all installing it again.
> However this time I do have a major problem.
> After running dselect the installer asks for the first cdrom and then
> starts reading it but instead of installing from it fetches a few updated
> packages from http apt sources (that I added) and security updates. After
> that is done (about 30mins) it starts reading the cd again and throws an
> error: