Live CD Loads extremely slow

My problem doesn't quite match any of the others. I posted this for tech people to look at. I thought it might be useful.

No LSB module was available. This is Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 Beta downloaded and installed 10/06/07.

The live CD stalls for several minutes. It takes 8 or 10 minutes to boot. Once boot it installs fine. My Dapper Live CD does not have this problem.

I erased quiet and splash from the first boot command and copied everything I could get written down. The installation comes to a standstill for some minutes so I had time to copy it all.

Specifically, the CD stalls for 2 or 3 minutes when this line posts:
[ 4.188000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Then it (very) slowly goes through a set of error posts, taking up to ten minutes to load. Once loaded it seems to work and install fine. I actually discovered that it would load at all taking the time to copy the screen posts.

I simply copied everything I could see while the installation was stopped, or going at a crawl. Scroll to the relevant parts. I did my best to copy everything exactly as I saw it.

[ *******] 3c59x: Donald Becker and others.
[ *******] 0000:02:00.0 3Com PCI
[ *******] 3c905C Tornado at e0814c00
[ *******] sda 0:0:0:0: [sda]39070080 512-byte hardware sectors (2004 MB)
[ *******] sda 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ *******] sda 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ *******] sda 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ *******] sda 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ *******] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
[ *******] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ *******] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI generic sg0 type0
[ *******] scsi 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
[ 4.188000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 42.736000] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 80.844000] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 80.844000] Buffer I/O error on dev fd0, logical block 0
[ 118.948000] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 118.948000] Buffer I/O error on dev fd0, logical block 0
[ 158.072000] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 196.176000] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 196.176000] Buffer I/O error on dev fd0, logical block 0
[ 234.544000] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 234.544000] Buffer I/O error on dev fd0, logical block 0
[ 234.******] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds.
[ 234.******] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.[ 234.******] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds.
[ 234.******] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 234.******] Registering uniofs 2.1.4 (for 2.6.22.6)
[ 234.******] loop: module loaded
[ 234.652000] squashfs: version 3.2-UBUNTU (2007/07/26) Phillip Lougher

Below is everything I could find out about my system except for the hard drive serial number, etc.

Dell Latitude, C640
BIOS Version A05

PROCESSOR:
Mobile Pentium 4, 2.2 GHz
Pentium 4(0.13) 2193 MHz
Chipset i845
Front Serial Bus 99 MHz

RAM:
512 MB 865 MB/s (DDR SDRAM)
L1 Cache 8k 15335 MB/s
L2 Cache 512k 15335 MB/s
ECC Disabled

Hard Drive:
Fujistsu MHS2020AT E

CD Drive:
Hitachi CD/RW DVD/ROM
HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4241N

VIDEO CONTROLLER: ATI Radeon
Video Card ATI
Video Memory 32 MB
Screen resolution of Ubuntu Desktop: 1400 x 1050 60 Hz