On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user wrote: > Are you sure that the Ubuntu CD is in good condition? I recently had > difficulty with an antiX Linux live CD. (It booted up, but certain > things didn't work.) The md5sum showed no problems, but the CD was > scratched. I burned antiX Linux to a new CD and had no problems. So I > think certain distros and/or CD drives are finicky. I've burned Ubuntu CDs that failed the test that is provided as an option on the CD. Now I always run the test before installing. Mike