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I'm no hardware guru but given that error, you might just have some bad sectors or something along those lines on your hard drive. I would reformat and try to perform a scandisk on the drive to see what it comes up with. Cause given an error "unfortunately disk 2 physically damaged beyond repair" is not a good sign...
Since you have an older computer, you might have an option in the bios to do a low-level format of the hard drive. It will rewrite all the sectors to disk... just make sure there isnt anything on there you ever want to see again!
sorry, will use "..." next time....
no, it doesn't say disk is damaged... it freezes install, due to large, visible transperant patches on cd!
Have formatted and reformatted, played with bios ect...
I was wondering if there was some install command to help
timeout dma.....?
anyway, if i don't find solution, i try Debian.
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