Comment 33 for bug 245794

I encountered the same problem and attempted a number of solutions such as burning a slower CD, install a different CD-ROM player, answering the installation questions differently, and a variety of other measures - none fixed the problem. What was even stranger was the problem generally manifested itself at different points in the copying phase of the installation?!?!? All along I was googling for solutions until I found this thread.

dci-Japan, when I read your posting, I had a hard time believing this would solve my problem, regardless I decided to give it a try.

It worked! :-) dci-Japan, thank you for your efforts in diagnosing the problem and having arrived at a solution. Thanks must also be given to everyone else who participated and shared information and ideas. I was becoming quite frustrated with this issue thinking that perhaps I had a hardware issue on the motherboard, this would have caused quite some disruption to my upcoming Linux projects.

MySystem: Ubuntu 9.10, Intel 8500 3.16GHz, Asus P5Q Deluxe, Asus EN9400GT, OCZ 4GB, Seagate HD(5)-5TB.