a lot of problems can be traced to

[alan]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, amazing powers of observation wrote:

> the burning of the iso image on to cd. checking the midsums and all i
> have found it better to burn the cd at ratio 1 to 1. if you go to fast
> it blurs the data or looses information. remember burn slow and your
> install will improve 

If that is the case, then you need a new burner. Properly operating 
hardware will not do that.