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Problem installing Ubuntu on my laptop

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trmiv

Lifer
So I'm giving ubuntu a try on my Dell Latitude D610. I downloaded the iso and burned it, but I can't get to the install. When I boot to the CD the screen comes up with the various options, I select the first one to install Ubuntu. It launches that splash screen with Ubuntu on it with the progress bar. I can hear the CD drive spinning up and down. Eventually I get an error that says:

Buffer I/O Error on device sr0 logical block 357564

What is this all about? I'm guessing maybe either something wrong with the CD or the CD drive? The CD seems OK, I can access it fine in windows, browse the content, install some of the windows apps that are on it. Any ideas?
 
My first instinct would be to distrust the CD. My second would be to distrust this particular CD/CD-Drive combination. I believe that there is the option to check the integrity of the CD at the boot screen. Try that first. If it passes successfully, the problem gets a trifle interesting. If not, just burn another one, ideally with more conservative settings.
 
I tried downloading an iso file for Ubuntu install and somehow, the data came up faulted.

Just order a Ubuntu
disk off ebay for $5.48 w/shipping.

That way, you'll always have an install disk forever.
 
I tried installing Ubuntu 6.10 a couple days ago on my rig it would go to the splash screen after the bar stopped bouncing around it started loading up than when it got to the end the splash screen would mess up and do nothing from there.
 
I normally don't have a problem with CDs, but I had a bad TDK burn, so I burned another one of 6.06 and it installed fine (this was before Edgy came out).
 
Try checking the disc, or redownloading, or burning on different discs, be creative sometimes you gotta trick computers into doing what you want.
 
When I got to work today I burned the exact same image to another CD, and installed it on a different laptop and it worked fine. I'm going to bring this disc home and see if it works. Too bad I bought it already though.
 
OK, I'm completely stumped now. I took the CD that I used today at work that installed fine and tried that at home. It gives me the exact same error. I also took a new CD rom drive and tried the disc in that, and it still gives me the error. So apparently it's not the disc or the drive. The weird thing is, this exact same CD installed just fine today at work on a D600. Only difference is my laptop is a D610. I'm confused. The drive works fine in Windows, and works fine installing windows, but refuses to work with ubuntu.
 
If you believe that there is a problem with your CD drive (at least with these disks), I would suggest extracting the iso to a removable drive and installing from there (if ubuntu gives you this option). I have used this to install Mandrake many times. In order to do this with Mandrake, you could burn a simple boot disk and use an option within to select where the iso was.

If you do not have a removable drive, you can see if you can install this from a network location (also possible with Mandrake, don't know about ubuntu).

Good Luck!

Jason
 
Apparently I'm not alone. I posted on the ubuntu fourms and another person there is having the exact same issue with a Latitude D610. Must be some odd problem with something on the D610's.
 
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