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:
status: 0x31 end_request: I/O error dev 16:00(hdc), sector 1173632 command error 0x54
and then keeps repeating the last four lines indefinetely until I reboot the machine and have to start all over again from base system configuration only to find out the same error again. Pretty frustrating. Does that mean the CD is somehow corrupted? The cdrom drive works fine, at least under Windows.. anyone can help? Thank you very much. This is very unfortunate, as it seems I am unable to install Debian again.. :(
Francesco.