invalid compressed format

[Kent C. Kollasch]

I did..

Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote:
> My best guess is that your ISOs got slightly corrupt. Try checking the
> MD5 sums.
> 
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Kent C. Kollasch  wrote:
> 
> 
>>I just purchased a Dell Otiplex GX270T (3.20GHz, P4, 800 FSB, 1 Gb
>>Ram, DVD+RW drive).  I tried to install Redhat 9.0, but the installer
>>was unable to identify my hard drives.  I have two 120GB SATA, 7200
>>RPM Hard Drives with Data Burst Cache.  The installer asked if I
>>wanted to add a driver, but I didn't see anything that would work.
>>So after doing some research, I found out that the kernel in Redhat
>>9.0 didn't support SATA drives, I needed kernel version 2.4.22 or
>>higher to support SATA.  After digging around some more, I find out
>>that Fedora supports SATA drives.  I downloaded the iso's, checked the
>>md5 sums, burned the CD's, and finally thought I'd jumped the last
>>hurtle.  It booted, asked which install to use, I hit enter for the
>>graphical install, started loading and then I got th following:
>>
>>Uncompressing Linux...
>>
>>invalid compressed format (err=2)
>>
>>--System halted
>>
>>
>>I then tried text install, but with the same result.  Does anybody
>>have any idea what's going on?
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 

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Kent C. Kollasch 
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VistaSource, Inc. 
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