Hi, I have some very weird problems with the core 2 i386 iso files. I downloaded the files from some ftp mirror. My client had a bunch of disconnects when it resumed the download where it left off afterwards, but at then I had the files. The MD5 checksums for all 4 iso files match the published checksums (checksums published on the mirror are the same as on the original fedora site, so I assume there is no difference in what the mirror offers). I tried burning the images from the ISO files using Nero, which was not a problem either. The disks are fine, I can read the directory structure without problems. The machines can boot from the CD and the installation starts but when I run the medium check of the installer, all four disks fail. I tried installing them anyway and get an error message when it tries installing the hwdata-0.118-1.noarch.rpm. The error complains about a problem possibly caused by a faulty medium, reading problem, etc. However, if I just copy this file off the CD in windows, upload it to a linux machine and run an "rpm -qip" on it, it is able to read it. Doesn't this mean that the RPM should be ok? Or could there be a problem with a part further towards the end of the file that does not get read to just extract the info? I then tried copying my ISO file to another computer to burn it on a different burner. The burn process fails at about 60-70%. Then I burned the 1st and 2nd ISO file on a CD just as a file rather than an image in order to take it to the office and burn it there. The CDs burned fine without problems again. 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? 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. I remember having media problems after supposedly successful downloads of FC1, but back then it turned out that the checksums did not match and the files were too short although the browsers reported the download as completed. But this time the checksum is ok. The files have the right length, up to the last byte. 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 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? 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? Thanks, MARK
