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Get a I/O Failure - please help -
« on: May 11, 2008, 10:17:57 am »
Hello i´m pretty new to this stuff so be kind :)

So i have just downloaded the DVD and everything goes smooth until it sais:

Copying DVD to hard drive
cp: reading `/cdrom/lmce-image/./firstboot': Input/output error
cp: reading `/cdrom/lmce-image/./linux-mce.tar.gz_00': input/output error

ERROR: I/O failure while copying from the DVD

so any thought on this failure.....


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Re: Get a I/O Failure - please help -
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2008, 11:56:36 am »
Hello i´m pretty new to this stuff so be kind :)

So i have just downloaded the DVD and everything goes smooth until it sais:

Copying DVD to hard drive
cp: reading `/cdrom/lmce-image/./firstboot': Input/output error
cp: reading `/cdrom/lmce-image/./linux-mce.tar.gz_00': input/output error

ERROR: I/O failure while copying from the DVD

so any thought on this failure.....



Well a number of people here have experienced this kind of problem. Usually it can be attributed to either a bad burn of the iso to DVD (try using a slower burn speed) or in some cases a faulty optical drive (swap in another known working optical drive and try the existing DVD).

...and in some cases a bad download of the iso from wherever you downloaded it from (check the md5 checksum to be sure).

Hope the above helps.

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Re: Get a I/O Failure - please help -
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2008, 12:24:46 pm »
we had a user that even exchanged drives and the error persisted.. it was a bad cable :)

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Re: Get a I/O Failure - please help -
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2008, 07:55:20 am »
I'm was getting the same error.

slow burn seemed to fix it.

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Re: Get a I/O Failure - please help -
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2008, 03:00:01 am »
I had this same issue and reburned the ISO on a different media type and I didn't receive this error anymore.

I ended up using a memorex 8x dvd +r dl 8x, but I burned it at 2.4x

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