I keep breaking it...

[tomeriker]

I recently started having problems with 10.2. I had it up and running and everything was fine, then I started playing around with beryl and got things messed up. Since I am still learning I expected to have to reload 10.2 a few times. so, no big deal. Wiped it out and formated the drive and reloaded. I did everything just as before except I took all the updates during install. Now its very unstable and Yast won't work most of the time..

Reformat, Reload, no updates. same problem, unstable and Yast won't work.

Use a format utility and do a long format, reload, no updates. unstable, yast works but crashes out.

Using the same disk I burned for the first install so I know its good.
Thinking maybe a hardware issue, so I download Ubuntu 6.10 and everything is running fine??

Is it possible that my disk has a error, even though it worked the first time??

[oldcpu]

Is it possible that my disk has a error, even though it worked the first time??

Yes it is possible.

You could try doing an md5 check on your disk. The CD version of SuSE-10.2 even has a section at the start where one can check the quality of the CD.