Livio Condorelli said...

|
|" There was an error installing samba-common-3.0.10-1.4E.9 This can 
|indicate media failure
|   Lack of disk space, and/or hardware problems.This is a fatal error 
|and your install will be aborted.
|    Please verify your media and try your install again"
|
|Now I will explain what I did until now
|
|1) Download the 4 iso image from the scientificlinix site, create a dvd 
|image and try to install and
|     I got the error as I mention but with different package"

Does it die at a different package each time?  If
so, you may have a hardware issue.  We saw this with
some systems that had a timing problem of some sort;
backing off the RAM bus speed a notch resolved it.
I wouldn't expect this on a Dell 2950, but I guess
it's possible, especially if you used any aftermarket
parts (RAM, disk, etc).  You might try memory and other
hardware diags, too, if nobody else has a solution.

We saw this with 4.x (I forget which version) on hardware
that had previously run OK on 3.0.4.

Then there are possible APIC and APCI issues...

If it happens on the same package every time, I have no
idea.

-Miles