My best guess is that your ISOs got slightly corrupt. Try checking the MD5 sums. On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Kent C. Kollasch wrote: > I just purchased a Dell Otiplex GX270T (3.20GHz, P4, 800 FSB, 1 Gb > Ram, DVD+RW drive). I tried to install Redhat 9.0, but the installer > was unable to identify my hard drives. I have two 120GB SATA, 7200 > RPM Hard Drives with Data Burst Cache. The installer asked if I > wanted to add a driver, but I didn't see anything that would work. > So after doing some research, I found out that the kernel in Redhat > 9.0 didn't support SATA drives, I needed kernel version 2.4.22 or > higher to support SATA. After digging around some more, I find out > that Fedora supports SATA drives. I downloaded the iso's, checked the > md5 sums, burned the CD's, and finally thought I'd jumped the last > hurtle. It booted, asked which install to use, I hit enter for the > graphical install, started loading and then I got th following: > > Uncompressing Linux... > > invalid compressed format (err=2) > > --System halted > > > I then tried text install, but with the same result. Does anybody > have any idea what's going on? > > > -- Sam Barnett-Cormack Software Developer | Student of Physics & Maths UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk) | Lancaster University
