"noone" <noone@noone.org> wrote in message
news:btjmhb$kn3$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>
> So it looks like a defective CD problem, despite the fact that the
> checkmedia process says it passed ... but there's more to this as you
> will see below.


Possibly a CD-ROM drive problem. Did you try:

linux ide=nodma

at the boot prompt?

--
William Hooper

It's sad that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of
wild dogs.