a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

[Chris Brennan]

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Chris Brennan <xaero at xaerolimit.net> wrote:

> I have a 2GB MicroSD card that I am going to toss 8.2BETA1 on, hopefully
> later today and see where that gets me.
>

2GB MicroSD card was a bust, use a 60GB hard-drive and wrote the image to
that, it booted it just fine, but the install failed w/ the exact same
error. Could this be the new drive? *shudder* Defective in some way?