invalid compressed format

[Kent C. Kollasch]

I suppose it's possible, but I've used xcdroast a lot and never had this problem before...

Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote:
> Sorry, I see you mentioned that in your mail.
> 
> It's also possible that there were errors in the burn, I've seen such
> behaviour in the past.
> 
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Kent C. Kollasch  wrote:
> 
> 
>>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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