On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 23:59 -0500, hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > The media is CD-R/W and the > CDROM on the machine having difficulty is rather old. Does this follow, > that the CDROM drive can read *some* of the disc, but not enough to > install from? It's possible - can you swap out the cdrom with another machine just to install? The other possibility (I had to do this with Debian once) is that it is improperly setting up the fstab for whatever reason on that machine - and you need to edit the fstab to point to the correct device before it will mount it for installation.