Re: RPM cannot be found during installation.

[Matthew Stanfield <matthew propertyknowledge com>]

Hi Pete,

Firstly let me apologize for taking a while to reply, my 10am 'morning'
meeting just overran by 3 hours <yawn>; now I can get on with some 'real'
work!


> > I'm not sure whether 650 MB in CDR capacity means 650,000,000 bytes
> > or 650 * 1024 * 1024 bytes.  I have some "650MB" disks at home, I'll try
> > copying disk1 to one of them tonight -- if I remember...
> 
> OK -- I did the experimentand found that disc1 copied OK to a 650 MByte
> (74 min) CD and the MD5 checksum came out OK on the copy using the
> dd/md5sum commands I mentioned in my earlier mail.

Pete - it was very kind of you to do this test for me. I bought some large
blank CDs and have burned the ISO's on to them. I was using Nero burning
software and -yes- I made the CD from the ISO image.


> > Let's hope your CD #1 is sufficiently good that you can use the rescue
> > mode.  On the initial screen when you boot the install disk, choose "rescue
> > mode" ("linux rescue"), respond to a query or two and then when it says it
> > will try to find an image, do the "skip" function.  That should get you to
> > a shell with a working "dd" and "md5sum".  Then try the commands I
> > mentioned in the previous message, except using "/tmp/cdrom" in place of
> > "/mnt/cdrom".  Check the reported MD5 sum against the list above.  Then
> > remove disk1 and do the same thing for disk 2 (don't forget to change the
> > "count=xxx" argument).
> 
> Did you get to try this?  Any results?

Yes I tried this late last night and dd gave me an input/output error but
only after a long time, suggesting the error is at the end of the CD. As a
result the md5 sums were incorrect. This happened with both enigma install
CDs. This is inkeeping with a disk burning problem. Although your burning
was successful this may be because we selected different preferences; for
instance in my preferences I can tell my software to use more space on the
CD than its 'published' size, I didn't try this but it serves as an example
of why your burning may have worked and mine may not have done.

I am now at the 'installing packages' stage of the installation -about 25%
done so far- and I think it's got further than either time before when I
had 'can't find rpm' errors. Fingers crossed the larger CDs burnt ok.

Many thanks for your repeated help and your going, 'way beyond the call of
duty', in burning a test cd and md5sum checking it for me.

An update on my progress will be sent as soon as the installation stops
(good or bad).

Thanks and regards,

Matthew

PS. I downloaded the documentation ISO at the same time as the 'enigma'
ones.