The AZtech CD Rom device on my 486-66 has installed all recent versons of Linux, but the 6.1 CD ROM runs as if several retries are necessary for each seek action. Minutes go by between changes in installation screens and multiple retry seek operations can be heard from the drive combined with apparent timeout delays.
Sounds like a hardware bug. Can you confirm that you are able to use the drive without trouble?
Closing this bug due to lack of activity.