Bug 79834

Summary:	DVD/CDROM IO error when trying to decompress stage on installation (2004.3 livecd)
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Tiago Freire <tiago.freire>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers <livecd>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	critical
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tiago Freire 2005-01-28 04:58:43 UTC

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

Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-28 05:33:55 UTC

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.