<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2657.88"> <TITLE>RE: error 2 reading header: cpio: Bad magic</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Hey Rick, That was it. I was using 650MB disks, not 700MB. Installed great. Thanks for the help. Danny -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces@redhat.com [<A HREF="mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces@redhat.com">mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces@redhat.com</A>] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:20 AM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: error 2 reading header: cpio: Bad magic Gibson, Danny wrote: > Yes, when I view the CD in my Windows box the following is displayed. > The files definitively appear to be there. I can browse the CD into > each sub-directory. This box will load Win98, NT4.0, XP and Mandrake > 8.2 with no problem. I would think if there was a hardware problem the > other OS's shouldn't install. Do you think it is possible that the iso > image itself may have an issue? Sure. You said that the MD5 checksum of the ISO image was correct, right? You can run the MD5 checksum on the burned disk as well: md5sum /dev/cdrom Do NOT run the checksum on the mount point (/mnt/cdrom)--do it to the raw device. Things to consider: 1. Don't burn at the highest speed your drive can do (you're already doing that). 2. Make sure you use 700MB media--not 650MB media. The ISOs completely fill a 650MB media and the outer edge of CD-ROM media is not reliable. Use 700MB CDRs. 3. Use only name-brand media (I use TDK or Maxell mostly). 4. Check the checksum of the burned media as shown above. 5. You can try turning off DMA operations on the CD-ROM drive during the installation. Assuming your CD-ROM is the primary device on the secondary controller (or device /dev/hdc): boot: linux hdc=nodma Is there a reason you're using RH9? It reached end of life almost a year ago and only the Fedora Legacy project supports it now. The latest "free" Red Hat Linux is Fedora Core 3. FC3 should work with the 384MB of RAM you have, although the odds are the system will do some swapping. I'd get the thing up to 512MB if possible. > > D:\>dir /s > Volume in drive D is Red Hat Linux_i3 > Volume Serial Number is 5DA7-B491 > > *.* I didn't display them all here... > > Total Files Listed: > 655 File(s) 675,566,545 bytes > 48 Dir(s) 0 bytes free > > Danny > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces@redhat.com > [<A HREF="mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces@redhat.com">mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces@redhat.com</A>] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 8:04 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: error 2 reading header: cpio: Bad magic > > Gibson, Danny wrote: > > Howdy Ya, > > > > > > > > I just finished a long download of the RedHat 9 iso files from > > ftp.redhat.com <<A HREF="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/" TARGET="_blank">ftp://ftp.redhat.com/</A>> and created my installation > > disk. I also used the MD5 checksum after the download and they verified > > OK. The problem I am encountering is that once the install starts I > > encounter the following error and the install craters: > > > > > > > > *error 2 reading header: **cpio**: Bad **magic** * > > > > > > > > The hardware is as follows: > > > > > > > > *Pentium III 550MHz* > > > > *384 MB RAM* > > > > *Intel i440BX chipset* > > > > *Primary IDE controller - 20G IDE Hard Drive - No partitions defined* > > > > *Secondary IDE controller - Toshiba CD-ROM drive* > > > > > > > > I have tried burning new CD/ROM disk at the slowest speed but incur the > > same exact error. > > > > I have Mandrake 8.2 install CD/ROM that will install with no problem on > > this same machine. > > > > I am at a lost as to what the issue might be and what to try next in an > > attempt to get this installed. > > > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > Are you certain you burned the CDs correctly? By that, I mean, if you > put the CDs into live machine and look at them, do you see a bunch of > files or just one. If you see only one, you burned the CDs wrong. > > ISO images are images of entire CDs and must be burned that way. In > your CD burning software, make sure you select the input as "ISO image". > Some instructions are at: > > <A HREF="http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#making_cds" TARGET="_blank">http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#making_cds</A> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. <A HREF="http://www.vitalstream.com" TARGET="_blank">http://www.vitalstream.com</A> - > - - > - What is a "free" gift? 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