New FC5 installation Package manager can not find installation files

[Paul Howarth]

Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 10:36 AM +0100 6/22/06, Paul Howarth wrote:
>  ...
>> What you need are the ISO files used to create the CDs. If you never had
>> the ISO files, you can create them from the CDs but that's a non-trivial
>> process so we'll not go into it unless necessary.
>  ...
> 
> Won't dd'ing the cds onto files do it?  It's what I've done.

It will but you might get additional garbage at the end of the file that 
causes the SHA1SUM to be wrong (you do check this, don't you ;-) ?). 
This is the same problem that causes mediacheck to fail on some hardware.

Paul.