When I got this new hard drive I decided to try installing linux alongside windows, so I made an ext3 partition for it, and recently got around to trying to burn a Ubuntu 10.1 64-bit image to DVD using the built-in Windows 7 burning tool.
When the computer boots from the DVD, it shows a friendly loading screen for about 15 minutes before failing, giving "General error mounting filesystems - a maintenance shell will now be started". I rebooted and did "check disc for defects", something along those lines, and it found 9 errors. To see if the image had downloaded incorrectly I downloaded another copy of it, but the MD5 sum of the two images were the same.
I burned another 3 images to different discs, each ending up with about 9 or 10 errors when I try to verify them. Something called squashfs always seems to be one of the files to have a mismatch. Oddly enough the discs seem to work fine as live distros as I'm posting this thread using the fourth disc now. I tried the friendly GUI-based installer from the live distro but that failed about half-way through as well.
What could be going wrong here? Maybe the DVD drive is faulty and needs replacing? It has been acting oddly recently, making odd tapping noises sometimes when burning discs, and making the "my computer" window hang when I right click on the drive with a disc in it.
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