invalid compressed format

[Kent C. Kollasch]

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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Kent C. Kollasch 
Manager, IT
VistaSource, Inc. 
117 Flanders Rd. 
Westboro, MA  01581 

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