On Sunday 16 September 2012 19:34:05 Baron wrote:
> On Sunday 16 September 2012 18:32:55 Lisi wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 September 2012 18:23:19 Slávek Banko wrote:
> > > I tried now to a very clean machine (my builder == not containing
> > > anything other than the basic system). To:
> > >
> > > aptitude install desktop-base-trinity kde-trinity
> > >
> > > I get:
> > >
> > > 0 packages upgraded, 553 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
> > > upgraded. Need to get 367 MB of archives. After unpacking 950 MB
> > > will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
> >
> > That's what I expected, what had previously happened and what I did.
> > The question is: is the problem hardware, software or mushyware (my
> > brain)?  And what do I do about it??
> >
> > Thanks for your reply, Slavek. :-)
> >
> > Lisi
>
> It may pay to test the CD/DVD drive.  I've had odd problems like this
> and traced it to the optical hardware.
>
> In one instance the download was fine but the burn to a DVD turned out
> to be bad, but it passed verification.  Checking on another machine the
> burnt disk failed MD5.
>
> Since then I've made a point of comparing the MD5 given by K3B with the
> reference
>
> One way of checking the optical drive is to test a known good DVD by
> having the disk check itself and comparing the checksums.

Thanks, Baron.  Yes, I always do that too.  But this is actually a USB-key.  
And it it is the installation from the net that I am having trouble with.

Lisi