On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:06:07AM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > > Try moving the disk out of that box to the new one, and see if it runs. > > Also try the reverse: move the 'new' disk to the already-installed > > machine and try to install on it in _that_ hardware. > > Unfortunatly, the original box is being used and cannot be swapped. > > I did try two other brand new hard drives, both with the same result. > > > Since you veryfied MD5 sums, chances are pretty low the CD's are > > corrupted.... That would mean something goes wrong _within_ your new > > box. Now what would cause garbage to be read from CD? > > > > Can you elaborate on what CD drive you're using? If IDE, can you try it > > with a different cable and on a different IDE bus? Does the installer's > > shell have 'md5sum', so you could verify the MD5 from within the > > installer? Or, from the other machine's disk in this box, if that works > > out...
I replaced the drive with a standard CD drive and a new cable. Same result.... I'm stumped.