Error 2 reading header: cpio: Bad magic

[Jay Daniels]

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