ok fellas, i think there is a simple answer to all these problems: high speed cd burning.<br><br>given the fact that i&#39;m using two separate cdrom drives with the two motherboards, <br>and given the fact that one of them actually burned the cd in question,
<br>and given the fact that bash/bunzip errors did not indicate any disk io error,<br>it comes as a rather unexpected surprise to me but :<br><br>epia system was occasionally hanging right after loading udev.<br>i always though it was due to the very same reason bash/unzip were failing.
<br>after all, there were no disk io errors, and the errors were repeatable.<br><br>so, at some point i though i should also give a try with some other cdrom. just for any case.<br>and imagine my surprise, the result was a perfectly working installation.
<br><br>i guess this settles the whole affair. happily ;)<br><br>to me, it is still hard to connect the bash broken pipes with faulty cd reading ...<br><br>thanks for the help guys<br>fikin<br><br>p.s. apparently via chipset is supported just fine in 
2.6.20.<br>and yes, via Samuel chipset (epia m) reports i686 but in fact has to be threated as i586.<br><a href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags">http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags</a><br><br><br><br>