Re: 2010.1 Installation failed - Dell Inspiron 8500

On Thursday 07 October 2010 02:30:59 pm Albert E. Whale wrote:
>  I am attempting to install Powerpack 2010.1 on a Dell Inspiron 8500.
> The install fails while loading the program into memory.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this?
>
> The kernel messages seem to indicate a Medium error on the DVD, but the
> disk verifies.
>
> Any ideas would be helpful.

I had problems on a couple of machines installing from the free DVD,
one being a Dell laptop (not same as yours) and another a desktop.
In both cases it was when something was loading and their is a progress
bar that goes across the middle of the screen.  Would get partway across,
hang, and then after a while an error message.  Don't remember exactly
the message, but seemed like a medium error.  In both cases I had to
burn a different brand of DVD.  Never had issues like this before, so seems
like 2010.1 is particularly sensitive (though I do not understand how that
could be).  Having the issue on the desktop was very odd, as it has two
DVD drives that I use all the time, and could not do install with either one
from one DVD (that checked out fine).
Norm