Miles O'Neal wrote:

>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?
>
Any time I burn a new DVD it die at a different package.

>  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). 
>
All the parts are "original" from Dell .

> 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
>  
>

Livio