On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 21:45, Steve Wechsler wrote: > Steve, I was the original poster, not Hans. > > The machine is a Dell Dimension 4550. Partition magic is not involved. Have you verified the CDs? cpio is the archive format used in RPM. So if there is bad mgic in an RPM, my guess would be that there's a file corruption. -- Karl DeBisschop <kdebisschop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>