Error 2 reading header: cpio: Bad magic
Jay Daniels
drs at pointyhats.com
Sun Apr 25 03:18:18 UTC 2004
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 09:03:18AM -0400, Ralph Grove wrote:
> I'm trying to install Fedora 1. I downloaded the CD's, tested them
> successfully and started the install. Within a few seconds, the
> following error appeared:
>
> "Error 2 reading header: cpio: Bad magic"
> exec of Anaconda failed....
>
> Has anyone seen this error? Any ideas on how to resolve it?
>
> Thanks
This could be a media, memory, or hardware failure, but you can try
the text based install.
Probably the cd.
jay
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