I have never had the mepis cd that I purchased from Mepis.com fail me. Intill last night. I was installing Mepis on a friends computer. That person had decided to try out Linux and was using Ubuntu, but was displeased with how hard it is to use, IE sound issues. I personally use a distro that stays a little more updated but Mepis is good to give to friends that are just starting out and it generally is quick to install.

However, I ran into a problem, I was installing it and about half way through the install process it locked up. I rebooted and the livecd started throwing errors. They were hdb read errors, what could have caused this?
I put the livecd in my laptop and it booted right up with no errors. I put it back in the computer I was trying to install it on and every time it would state hdb read errors, a bunch of them.

I had to reinstall ubuntu. Ubuntu reinstalled flawlessly, but the sound issues came right back.

any ideas? should I have tried mepislite?

The machine is a 1600+, with a 761 chipset, pc2100 512mb ddr, geforce 3 video card, 13GB 7200 2MB cahce hd, generic dvd rom and generic soundcard.

Did you mount the drive before installing? If so thats gonna be a problem.
Are you reusing ubuntu's partitions? That could potentially be a problem.

Does the mepis cd work on other computers?

mount the drive? I have never had to do that on any other computer.

I am trying to install it over the ubuntu install... Could this be the problem?

Yes, as I stated in my original post I have used this exact cd on other computers, and at the time I was trying to install it on this computer it worked on my laptop but not on the computer that I wanted it to install on.

Thanks
Kezz