hi, sorry for the delay. it seems it was a hardware problem afterall. I didn't have the problem with the 5 new installations, so i tried Windows 98 on the machine and it did the same thing.
thanks for the help. -- flash stick opens cd rom https://launchpad.net/bugs/84886 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
