Breezy preview installation stops when "copy remaining packages"

[Jianbo Zhang]

I have tried to install Breezy Preview on a Dell Inspiron 6000 machine (A8 Bios,
915GM, 80 Gb harddrive) 6 times. It always stops during "copying remaining
packages to hard drive" (5 time copying is fininshed ~70%; one time ~90%). It
complains no enough hard drive space, which is not true because the partition
has 15 Gb.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This is generally due to a bad CD or a dirty CD drive having problems reading
the CD, and I've corrected archive-copier's error message to say so.

archive-copier (0.3.3) breezy; urgency=low

  * Expand on archive-copier/copy-failed text to explain that failures may
    be due to CD problems.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:53:30 +0100

[Jianbo Zhang (zhang-jianbo)]

The same CD works well on my desktop computer. I tried Kubuntu Preview
yesterday, the installation stoped when "copy remaining package" finished ~70 %.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> The same CD works well on my desktop computer.

As I said, dirty CD drives are often a problem. I had similar problems on my
laptop recently, fixed by investing in a drive cleaning kit.

> I tried Kubuntu Preview yesterday, the installation stoped when "copy
remaining package" finished ~70 %.

Look in /var/log/messages and/or /var/log/syslog; do you see "input/output
error" anywhere?

[Jianbo Zhang (zhang-jianbo)]

I reburned the CD at 4X, and successfully installed Breezy Preview on the dell
inspiron 6000. So the problem was the CD. But I still do not understand why the
old CD works on my desktop.

Sorry to report a false bug. Thanks for your good work. I like Ubuntu very much.