installer crashes during file transfer "(errorno 5) input/output error"

[Justin Mills]

Booting directly from USB and installing to hard drive. Error received about one third to halfway through file transfer. Installing on a laptop with no DVD/CD drive.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubiquity 2.18.7 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.340
Date: Tue Jun 3 21:45:11 2014
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper cdrom-detect/try-usb=true noprompt floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0 ignore_uuid initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140417)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

It looks like your installation medium is corrupt. Please run the check disc option from the boot menu, and/or recreate it and try again.

[Justin Mills (justinwmills)]

Thanks. I had tried several different BIOS configurations in an attempt to get it to work without any success. I ran a diagnostic on the hard disc and it checked it out okay, so I formatted the USB and recreated the installer/bootable USB. Worked like a charm.