Bad night with FC-5 - some things to try...

[Timothy Murphy]

David Timms wrote:

>>>>  I got an error on CD#4 - an rpm was not found.

> 1. can you now copy that single file from the CD to your hard disc ?

Actually, I downloaded the ISOs directly to the hard disk
when installing from the hard disk,
so I don't think my problems could be due to "bad burns".

> I have done CD, DVD and ftp installs (not upgrades) on a couple of very
> different HP notebooks with and without using PCCard network adapters,
> and are yet to see an issue.

Have you installed on any AMD machines?

> The probability of
> a dodgy cd
> a dodgy cd drive
> a dodgy cable
> a dodgy burn
> a burn of a dodgy iso file (sha1sum FC5-disc1. .iso and compare to the
> download.fedora.redhat.com sha1sums)
> I reckon are the main contributing factors.

The only relevant item in my case is the last,
and I do not find any discrepancy:
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[tim at blanche fc-5]$ for i in 1 2 3 4 5
> do
> sha1sum FC-5-x86_64-disc$i.iso
> done
e06f15147111b763e61f09c725760984cf4533ba  FC-5-x86_64-disc1.iso
141a681eb2c00001b28e0cb21e8bae60ed384cc1  FC-5-x86_64-disc2.iso
c660b60b2d0544088a74bc12f1b63a5ed85ef859  FC-5-x86_64-disc3.iso
34e115eecf7a1fe6a574647d2370fc353133eddd  FC-5-x86_64-disc4.iso
f7bef2a78e93a1587d9eee8a4fd843a943b14888  FC-5-x86_64-disc5.iso
[tim at blanche ~]$ wget
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/x86_64/iso/SHA1SUM
...
[tim at blanche ~]$ cat SHA1SUM
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

e4896997ce27f9175832ae88851cf5a6e4638356  FC-5-x86_64-rescuecd.iso
e06f15147111b763e61f09c725760984cf4533ba  FC-5-x86_64-disc1.iso
141a681eb2c00001b28e0cb21e8bae60ed384cc1  FC-5-x86_64-disc2.iso
c660b60b2d0544088a74bc12f1b63a5ed85ef859  FC-5-x86_64-disc3.iso
34e115eecf7a1fe6a574647d2370fc353133eddd  FC-5-x86_64-disc4.iso
0429be10e3df5a3ec118ca32802aa44cdf89c6c5  FC-5-x86_64-DVD.iso
f7bef2a78e93a1587d9eee8a4fd843a943b14888  FC-5-x86_64-disc5.iso
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