Re: failure to uncompress?

[Bryan Swann <swann nosc mil>]

I've seen the same problem during the installation process.  It happens
when the file system that the RPM is being installed is full.  How do you
have your disk partitioned?  Do you have a swap partition allocated?

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On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Stephen Smoogen wrote:

> 
> Hmmm do you see any other errors on the ALT-F3 and ALT-F4 pages?
> 
> On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, L. OROZCO-VILLASENOR wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hello all.  I am trying to install RHLinux 4.2 on a new K6-200 machine,
> > and I'm really stuck.
> > 
> > I get to the point where I get to select which packages I want to install,
> > but then once it starts copying the files to the hard disk, I get an error
> > which reads something like "Failure to uncompress xxxx.xx".  So it appears
> > that the files are being copied to the HD, but for some reason it can
> > uncompress them.  Does this sound like a hardware problem to you guys?
> > 
> > The motherboard is a Tyan S1571S, with a K6-200.  The HD is a Fujitsu
> > 2.6Gb disk, set up as the Primary master device.  The CDROM is set up as
> > the primary slave disk.
> > 
> > any ideas??
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Luis Orozco
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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