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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's been 3 days since I have downloaded and
written the RH 7.3 ISO images to disks. I verified the ISO files with the
MD5SUM. I slowed down my cd writer to 2x, and all 3 cd's burned without
errors. I wrote a bootup floppy using RAWRITE, and ran MEDIACHECK on all 3
disks, and all passed(including today).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm tryng to install a server install with the
following partitions:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/boot 60MB</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>/ 3000MB</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>swap 128MB</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The machine is a pentium 133 with 64MB of Ram, and
a Maxtor 10GB drive.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now the problem: cpio: MD5 sum
mismatch</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This error occurs at random places in the
install(according to the install.log), and with different packages on each
attempt to install. I actually made it to the 2nd cd on one
install.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have changed the CD ROM(3 times) and I have tried
different hard drives.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The only thing that I haven't changed is the
cd's. They are Memorex, for 1X to 16X. Like I said, I slowed my cd
writer (HP 8250i) to 2x when I wrote the disks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The really confusing thing is it fails on different
packages each install attempt. I ran a MEDIACHECK on disk 1 again tonight,
and it passed.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm not using any parameters. To start the
install, I boot up on the floppy created earlier, and enter TEXT to start a text
installation. I don't install anything but the server configuration; no
additional packages, because I plan for this to be my SAMBA server down the
road. But now, it would be nice to get Linux going.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I used Google to search for this error, and it
seems to be happening to alot of people, but I couldn't find a
solution.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any help would be appreciated.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>