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Managed to trace the "hang" late in the 7.10 installation process to a
faulty CD drive (6 month old LiteOn DVD+RW). Tried a spare (older)
Samsung unit and that completed the installation all the way through.
So, basically looks like the alternate installer doesn't deal so well
with flaky hardware.
Traced the above errors to bad CDR media. One of the files (nis_*) kept
failing the media integrity check. That media happened to be a copy of
a known good CD-R I burned directly from the iso available from the
download mirror. I wound up downloading the iso again and reburning an
image. That s
** Summary changed:
- Install base software failed
+ Install base software 7.10 Alternate failed
** Description changed:
- System based on Asus P4S533 (SIS chipset) ran 6.01 LTS for a couple
- years without issue. Decided to upgrade to 7.10 via a clean
- installation. All went fine until the I
