invalid compressed format
Kent C. Kollasch
kent at vistasource.com
Tue Dec 23 18:55:01 UTC 2003
Just a heads, up. I had a bad disk. I downloaded a new iso and
reburned it. Installed like a champ..
Mads V. Pedersen wrote:
> Maybe you "suffer" from one of the DMA related problems at the
> bootprompt try:
>
> linux allowcddma
>
> or
>
> linux nodma
>
> -- mads
>
> Kent C. Kollasch wrote:
>
>> 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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