On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 10:30 -0700, Mark wrote: > Hi, > > I have some very weird problems with the core 2 i386 iso files. > ...snip... 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? Have you tried media from a different batch? Some CD media is really crappy, and some readers don't like some media that works on others. > 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. ... > 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 There is a small but finite probability that the checksums could match but the isos be bad, but the probability of this happening on 2 isos is vanishingly small. On all 4 ~= 0.0. > 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? # rpm2cpio hwdata-version.rpm > file.cpio > 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? A workaround would be to loopback mount the iso images, copy them somewhere, and do a network install after adding the isolinux/vmlinuz and initrd.img to grub.conf, or using boot.iso, as outlined in numerous posts. Phil
