On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 20:26 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Anyway, I now have a repeat install failure, on the same file it > upchucked over before I believe, this time while doing a full > automatic install on /dev/hdb. > > >From the installer screen: > > There was an error installing openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-10. This can > indicate media failure, lack of disk space and/or hardware problems. > This is a fatal error and your install will be aborted. Please > verify your media and try your install again. > > >From the end of the /mnt/sysimage/root/install.log: > > error: unpacking of archive failed on > file /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program/resource/svx64508.res; 41f03elf: cpio: > MD5SUM mis-match. > > There didn't seem to be anything related to that in > the /mnt/sysimage/root/install.log.syslog. > > Now, this all points to a bum cd, but its been md5sum'd several times > now. Chances are than a restart will work. Maybe. Its failed 2 out > of three times through this loop now. I'll see if an older burner I > have will fit without having to hack up the face of the box with a > hacksaw tomorrow, it was working just fine in this box when I took it > out to make room for a dvd burner last spring. ---- I have had problems too when I burn the images on the CD Writer in my faster machines. I now slow down the write speed to 4x when I burn install images (fedora, whitebox etc.) - At 4x write speed, they never seem to fail me. Craig
