Emac Frozen on Install Disc 2

Okay,
I got my first school up and running thank you to this site, so her goes number two.
I have tried to do a clean install on another Emac. It will install disc 1 perfectly, but when I try disc 2, it always freezes, at different points.
Now, because this is from our lab, I do not know exactly which of my install disc sets it came with. I have tried
10.3.3 - erases, then frozen on disc 2
10.3.5 - erases, then frozen in disc 2
10.4 - ditto
I've tried each many times.
I have it running in 512 (2x 256) memory. The memory it uses has only one open tooth like this IIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.
Most of my other eMacs use the other memory with "two open teeth."
Looks Like this:
IIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.
Any and all ideas appreciated.
Will

Hey electrolite,
Well the memory you reference w/ the one slot is PC2700 and w/ 2 is either PC 100 or PC133 (If it's working the PC133 can downclock to PC100 speeds).
I use multiple retail installers w/ multiple clones to administer all the Macs at our school. This is because scratches on the installers will drive you nuts w/ exactly the problems you're seeing. And the "machine specific" installers, don't get me started. I have a stack of about 50 of them that are seldom used.
All your machines will run Tiger so I'd just run w/ that.
Lately I've also been using "restored" images of the installers that I have placed on dedicated hard drives to do installs. So FireWire and no scratched disks to deal with. I even skip the part at the beginning "verifying your disk".
Richard

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