I was installing and had an IO error when I tried to decompress stage1 from the livecd. I had other issues as well, but this cd has been burned on a shining new media at 4x speed just to be sure. Workaround: downloaded the stage from the internet. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.try to decompress stage1 per installation instructions 2. 3. Actual Results: Input/Output error Expected Results: stage1 should have been happily read from livecd and decompressed Motheboard: MSI K8N Neo Platinum Athlon 64 3000 1GB DDR 400 RAM 4 x 200GB SATA HDs on RAID filesystem: reiserfs (not reiser4) DVD drive: LG 4160B
Well, it seems to work for everyone else, so I would suspect either your media or your drive. There's no way we could possibly resolve this, so I am marking as CANTFIX.