Mandriva 2007 Install Crashes

[Guest jonny]

I'm trying to install mandriva free 2007 (64bit) from 3cds I burnt from iso. I tried to use the 'copy cd's to HDD' feature during install but it fails on disk 3, where it just loops on the progress bar really slowly. When I removed the option and tried to install again I get errors about some image files '.png' and taken back to the partition manager. The errors are different every time I try to install the program, but always in the same place, and involve '.png' files.

 

Hardware is:

ASUS MOBO M2N32-SLi Wireless Ed.

AMD X2 4200+

Seagate Baracuda 250GB SATA

Sony DVD

Liteon CDR/W

Geforce 7100GS

 

The computer currently runs both win xp and ubuntu 32bit without problems.

Any ideas?

Is there any way to check the install disk is ok?

[neddie]

Is there any way to check the install disk is ok?

There's an easy way to check whether the ISOs were downloaded OK for starters - from Ubuntu use the command

md5sum file.iso

and compare with the sums listed on the Mandriva download page. If they're ok then it's possible the burn might have gone wonky- can you browse through the contents of the cd ok?

[Guest jonny]

yep, can browse ok

[Ixthusdan]

There is an error that I had come up when installing the 64 bit version. There should be an option to continue the install. After installing, the system gets update via urpmi and I found no lasting issues. The real problem is that it is occurring at different places, telling me that it is more likely a bad burn or bad image.