Comment 65 for bug 220706

I discovered this by accident, but it's worked twice now installing Ubuntu 8.10 server

As soon as I'd hit "Install Ubuntu Server" I'd start getting errors including - srst failed errno 16

There were other errors too, but I can't remember what they were....

At any rate, twice now I was able to fix it by opening the CD drive, with the installer cd in, when the errors appear , then closing it.

It sounds ridiculous - I know - but it's worked twice for me. <shrug>