invalid compressed format

Mads V. Pedersen rhl-list at volsted.com
Thu Dec 18 02:39:50 UTC 2003


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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