Quick Update: I just tried the media check on yet another machine and finally found a CD-ROM that would pass it. No idea why all others had problems before. Like I said, I burned lots of disks of the same spindle/burner/machine etc and never had problems reading them on the machines that had problems now. So at least I know that the downloads are ok. One step further... I have used the ide=nodma, that's when I got the hwdata RPM error. But I think I didn't do a media check with it. Maybe something I will try later, just for kicks... rpm2cpio reads that rpm file without problems btw and generates a 1MB cpio file... So I still don't know why this is this big of a mess suddenly, guess it's just an unlucky bad second half of the week. After all it's not the only thing that went wrong computerwise :( Thanks for all the responses so far! MARK > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Kosin > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 11:08 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: Problems with medium check for FC2 despite of > proper checksum! HELP > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mark wrote: > > | Hi, > <<-- snip -->> > | > | 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 > > Did you use the command 'md5sum -c MD5SUM' to verify the checksums? > Just downloading the checksum file doesn't verify anything. > > | 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? > > Try burning them at a slower speed, say 4x instead of 48x... > > I believe there was also a post somewhere about CDROM dma > being an issue > try specifying 'ide=nodma'. Give that a try also... > > > Good Luck, > James > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFA0y+Vc7lFLjBWKW0RAv4pAKCAFh9TppjnjX4XIZPmeCBVEOhO6wCcDoIS > 18aQUCe8XY3MhEacBN44eVg= > =UgF2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
