Bug#333831: Further Investigation
Purchased a replacement CD-ROM drive for this machine, but with the same
results.
Seems that on more recent kernels the "acpi=off" workaround no longer
results in a stable system.
In particular if I boot with "acpi=off" on recently kernel, then I get
sporadic disk read errors.
I can't reproduce this with the original Etch installer kernel
2.6.18-4-486, which booted with "acpi=off" can verify the install CD.
With Lenny installer 2.6.26-1-486 and "acpi=off" I failed to verify a
Lenny installer CD.
Very hard to test, as it only failed sporadically it is hard to be
confident that this secondary issue isn't affecting results for the
original issue.
Will try kernel from unstable.
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