Comment 21 for bug 245794

Ububtu 9.10 is installed finally, I tried all the above, what worked for me is having an external usb drive plugged in? In previous installs the ram thing worked, although this time it didn't -- have to try taking the other memory module out and putting the in the main memory slot. I never had a CD burn problem since I use USB installer.
Before I would burn tons of CD's, redownload, burn... just to try to install.
Still with both Ubuntu 9.04 , 9.10 and Mint 7 I have problems installing with the same i/o error??
I'll post results after trying the other ram module by itself.
The other thing I'm noticing is that during install after partition selection, it says there are no users or other systems on the computer and I have two other 9.10 installs, also a Mint 7? One with /home from before and the other with only / specified. This installation is going to use the entire hd 160gb.
I hope we're going to come to the bottom of this - it's embarrassing and MS is probably laughing.