On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 09:03, Ralph Grove wrote: > I'm trying to install Fedora 1. I downloaded the CD's, tested them > successfully and started the install. Within a few seconds, the > following error appeared: > > "Error 2 reading header: cpio: Bad magic" > exec of Anaconda failed.... > > Has anyone seen this error? Any ideas on how to resolve it? > > Thanks I have had this problem myself several times. In my case the problems turned out to be either a flakey cdrom/hard drive combination or a motherboard (mostly via89xx chips) issue. In some cases changing the cdrom to hdc or another unit helped, and on some systems changing cdroms. I was forced to do a upgrade on another machine and transfer the hard drive. There also might be a way to play with other settings. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
