On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:48:32 -0800 Srikanth Konjarla <srikanth.konjarla@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Any thoughts? It is marginally possible that the DVD drive is busted and so it can't read any of the media correctly and that's why it crashes (just a thought, no guarantee :-). You could try doing a hard disk install or a network install and see if it gets any farther.