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While attempting to install Linux on a Compaq Presario that is now 10 years old, the installation CD for the current and prior releases, displayed various I/O errors during the install process and resulted in some packages being installed, but no bootloader. Strangely enough, if I used the installation CD for the same Linux release going back three versions, that particular release installed fine and was then able to do an online upgrade to the "prior" version mentioned above, as the "current" version did not run as expected, the login was set to auto-login, yet it began to prompt for a password after so many reboots, despite the settings to the contrary. Reading the issue that Seth had, this made me wonder if perhaps the ribbon cables running between the motherboard and CD/DVD drives might be bad. But then, why would the current and prior releases display I/O errors on those installs, but the third release back installed fine... --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090815-0, 08/15/2009 Tested on: 8/16/2009 2:03:54 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com
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