All,

I'd greatly appreciate any input or help on this one as these errors don't

I recently downloaded Slackware 10.1 from a mirror and ran MD5check to verify that the download was pristine. Then burned to CDs once again with VERIFY ON.

When installing Slackware, I got several errors when installing, on tetex-2.02-i386.tgz, lvm-1.0.8-i486.tgz etc etc... and so on with 8 other packages (5 on disk 1, 3 on disk 2)

When rebooting to do a clean install, installing from the exact same CD, I got errors on completely different packages. Which makes me question why all of a sudden one package failed in one install, and work elsewhere?

I have formatted the harddrive with the CHECK option, and found no errors. Have also installed both from internal and external CDROM.

Could there be a problem with my Slackware CD's downloaded from an authorized mirror AND checked with md5, or could there be a compatibility issue with my PC?

Computer in question is a Dell OptiPlex GX1 with 8GB disk and 512MB RAM.

Any insight greatly appreciated!

No great insight just confirmation of similiar experience.
Had similiar random read failures installing on 770x thinkpad; cd was cut with HP drive on another machine from downloded files.
Don't know if related but......
Received 10.1 4 cd set and decided to copy source from disks 3 & 4 to a drive on the box with the cd burner. Mounted the cd then using mc (as root) tried to copy to a directory on a 10 gig drive. At random points mc would lock up and had to go to different console to kill; delete what was done then try over. Never got the job done using mc was always some file that would not read. Dropped down to command line cp and while that ran to completion I have not had time to go back and check if all files were properly copied.
Oh yea the official cd #1 did run without problem on the thinkpad but I do a very limited setup-install and then come back to install more after sucessful reboot (burned by lilo to many times).

Hope others post their findings
ppd

I have had similar experiences, but for me every time the problem has been a dirty or scratched CD. The tiniest of bits of fingerprint can refract the laser, I guess, and cleaning the discs might be worth doing.

Hala 3ammi,

I had this problem twice, and on both occasions, the CD drives were very old ones... I've tried the same CD on my current laptop, and another machine (with another cd drive), and it worked...

So in my case, the CD drives themselvs were ... not functioning well. To make sure if your problem is because of the actual CD, or a hardware fault (cd drive, hard drive), see if you can install slackware with the same disks you have, but on another machine, and if you still get this problem or not.

HTH

As for the CD-drive, I've tried both with the built-in CD-drive and with an external Sony DVD-RW drive that works perfectly well with other Linuxes. I've now successfully installed both Fedora and SuSE with the CD without any problems, so I assume it might be a controller issue as I get the same random problem with two completely different CD/DVD-players....

Is there any way to check if this is indeed a driver-issue, and are there any "safe-mode" drivers available?

-Y1