Optical medias are not reliable. Yet still work if you don't mind elbow grease. You have a faulty DVD/CD disk. Try multiple disks and make sure they are clean. If your system supports booting from USB, then install from a flash drive.
Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: >On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 04:24:05PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 09:30:21 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> > I'm having various random problems installing from Live CD's. The >> > problems are weird, inconsistent, and intermittent. The first thing is >> > to determine whether or not I have faulty hardware, be it the target box >> > or the box that burns the CD. >> >> Optical media is more and more becoming a complete headache. Have you >> considered installing from USB stick instead? >> >> Anyway, for inconsistent errors (now works, now doesn't), sometimes is >> better to replace the DVD drive for a new one (specially when is "old" >> for today standards which means 4/5 years), and given their current >> prices (~25€) that's something affordable. > >Ouch!!, at least try different media first, some media are problematic >with some DVD/CD drives (according to some stuff I've read) > >-- >"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people >who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the >oppressing." --- Malcolm X > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org >Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120701233400.GL15677@tal >
