[X4U] OSX 10.3 install fails on disk 2

[Rad Craig]

I got my little sis a Pismo for college, for xmas.  I just got it and 
am installing 10.3 on it.  I blew the drive away, formatted OSX 
extended (journaled) and started from scratch.  I unchecked all the 
languages and printer drivers.

Disk 1 finished without problems.  I reboot, get promted to insert disk 
2 and it gets almost done, to about 9 minutes remaining, then says 
something like 'errors were encountered during installation' and the 
button changes to 'quit'.

I have done this twice now, with two different Disk #2's and got the 
same error both times.

After the first install, I was doing the software update, which was 
quite a list, and it hosed up on the last item in the list, which is 
all the 10.3 updates for OSX (like 97MB).  Then it would no longer 
connect to the internet via ethernet.  I restarted twice, repaired disk 
permissions, but that didn't fix anything.  I mounted the disk 2 and 
ran the install.pkg manually and it finished without problems, but 
still acted flaky.  I tried to reboot on a recovery CD I have, but when 
I selected it in 'startup disk' and clicked reboot, it would just sit 
there and never reboot.  So I closed startup disk and restarted it via 
the apple menu, held the 'c' key down during boot, and it ignored it 
and booted to the HD like normal.

So after all these strange things, I decided I'd try it all again, used 
a different disk 2 cd, but got the same results.

This is a Pismo, 400mhz, 11.2G HD, 192MB.

Any suggestions?  I've got to have this thing all setup for her by xmas 
eve.


Rad...