CD verification indicated no errors. Steve > From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Karl DeBisschop > > 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.