Haines Brown wrote:
> The problem was with the SSD itself. I ran fsck on it and the
> installtion then went smoothly,

Reading through the thread my first thought is that the SSD is
failing. I suggest swapping to a different SSD and trying the
installation.

Now that you have it working on this one I suggest keeping a close eye
on it and files backed up as this seems suspicous to me.

Bob