[LAU] installation weirdness

[david]

Dave Phillips wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Yesterday I tried to install the i386 version of the new Ubuntu Studio 
> 9.04. I erased some partitions, got everything set up and going 
> swimmingly, then after a while I noticed that the installer had hung up 
> at an error. The error message informed me that the Select And Install 
> Software stage had failed. I chose to continue, went on to install Grub, 
> and then it failed too, with a similar message re: failure to install 
> Grub. Alas, at this point the installer went spinning into the dead 
> zone. I couldn't proceed, the error panel obscured the continuation 
> panel, and I eventually had abort the installation. Fortunately my 64 
> Studio partition was untouched, and the installer had left my original 
> Grub menu intact, so I still have a workable system on this machine.
> 
> Incidentally, the error message advises lowering the speed of my CD/DVD 
> drive. How can I make that happen ?

Did that error message recommend something like burning the image at 8x 
speed? I saw that recommendation when I tried to burn an image here.

The only problem with their recommendation is that my DVD/CDRW burner 
won't go any slower than 16x ...

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David
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