The disk probably had some problem. It was burned by a collegue at work,
but I did not check it (though I should have). He burned it at a slow
speed. I still don't rule out a DVD reader issue, however.

The messages appeared during 2 of my 5 installation attempts. Each time
during the file to disk copying step. At 2 different percentage of the
step (hinting strongly at some cd pb).

As for the error messages, what I suggest is just to make them more
readable. As is, with such kind of messages, if you are not very
computer-savvy, you will be afraid you broke something or think it does
not work and drop Ubuntu (which is bad, especially when the problem is
just a bad cd). I think that a minor change in those messages will make
a _huge_ difference. If you search for the phrase 'SQUASHFS error", you
will see numerous questions about it. This illustrates that the messages
are not explicit enough.

I think that this is especially important when the problem occurs during
the installation. Since Ubuntu is usually not preinstalled, the install
step is critical, especially when you can't access to internet because
you are in the middle of the installation...

Another issue that I did not raise in my initial report is: would it be
possible for the installer itself to handle such problems? When some
component encounters an issue and stalls or fails, it would be nice to
have the installer itself stop and give you a retry/abort option. For
this component I'm afraid it would not be that easy however (you can't
just set up a timer on this kind of operation).

Thanks for the package change.

Regards.

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Unhelpful SQUASHFS error messages
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249328
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