Re: Problems with medium check for FC2 despite of proper checksum! HELP

From: Phil Schaffner (Philip.R.Schaffner_at_NASA.gov)
Date: 06/18/04

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    Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:56:56 -0400
    
    

    On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 10:30 -0700, Mark wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I have some very weird problems with the core 2 i386 iso files.
    > ...snip... However, on all the machines in the office I get a CRC error
    > when I try copying the iso file off the CD onto the harddisk.
    >
    > Does anybody have any idea what the hell is going on there?

    Have you tried media from a different batch? Some CD media is really
    crappy, and some readers don't like some media that works on others.

    > I am not doing this for the first time, I always burn all kinds of CDs with
    > the same computers and programs. I burned a bunch of copies of FC1 and they
    > all installed fine.
    ...
    > So to summarize this, here are my questions:
    > 1. If the checksums are ok, can I be sure that the iso files were downloaded
    > ok? I guess it is not *ABSOLUTELY* guaranteed but the likelyhood is *REALLY*
    > high

    There is a small but finite probability that the checksums could match
    but the isos be bad, but the probability of this happening on 2 isos is
    vanishingly small. On all 4 ~= 0.0.

    > 2. Could the hwdata RPM be corrupt even though I am able to read the header
    > info? How can I extract all the files from the RPM without installing them
    > to really read the RPM all the way to the end?

    # rpm2cpio hwdata-version.rpm > file.cpio

    > 3. How do I get this to work? Is there anything special I have to consider
    > when burning the iso images that's different fomr how it worked for FC1?

    A workaround would be to loopback mount the iso images, copy them
    somewhere, and do a network install after adding the isolinux/vmlinuz
    and initrd.img to grub.conf, or using boot.iso, as outlined in numerous
    posts.

    Phil

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