On Oct 8, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Chris Mauritz wrote: > Chris Boyd wrote: >> Tearing our hair out on this one. Trying to install CentOS 5 >> x86_64 on a Supermicro X7DVL-E with 2 Xeon L5320 quad core CPUs, >> 3Ware SATA RAID controller in a mirrored setup and 4 GB of >> memory. Installation crashes at random places while copying the >> files. We've run memtest86 for 24 hours without any errors, >> replaced the RAID controller, motherboard and disks, but still no >> luck. >> >> Any thoughts, hints or LARTs appreciated. > > I had similar issues on a recent install. It turned out to be > errors on the install media (which I have gotten lazy about > checking). I reburned the DVD (with verify enabled this time) and > it worked just fine afterwards. Oops--forgot to mention that we have tried other media and veriifed the CDs we're using.