The drive is... a Samsung SpinPoint from 2001. xD.
It has a nice history too... it served like... 3 computers already.
Damn these things go forward so fast. Back then I'd never would've imagined that we'd be riding 1TB machines in... 8 years?
-v was the "boot up with diagnostic messages" mode, right?
I don't think getting the DVD to work again is a problem here, since I've noticed that all ya have to do is to 'erase' the data it stored on the plugged in drive. Then it behaves like it's running for the first time again on that machine - therefore it works.
The problem here is, why the installation froze at ~8%.
Could the single fact that the drive is ATA be the cause?