On Mon, 13 May 2002 09:06:52 +0100 Chris Hewitt <g0pae manordat demon co uk> wrote:
Patrick,
Just a thought. Are you sure the iso images will go onto 650MB CDs? I've no experience of 7.3, but on 7.2 its really too tight to assume that it will go only 650MB. Have you checked the checksum?
HTH Chris
I've read this several times now, and I'm puzzled. I just installed 7.3 a few days ago, burned on 650s, no errors at all. I also installed 7.2 from 650s and had no problems. Afterward I started hearing this was a problem.
Using the -h flag on df showed them to be less than 650 when burned in both instances. I don't have the ISOs in front of me because I dumped them after getting a good burn. But I always check sizes before I do a burn and I know the -h flag of ls -l showed them to be under 650.
These are the sizes of 7.3:
[kcsmart home kcsmart]$ df -h /cdrom1 Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/cdrom1 iso9660 637M 638M 0 100% /cdrom1 [kcsmart home kcsmart]$ df -h /cdrom1 Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/cdrom1 iso9660 638M 639M 0 100% /cdrom1 [kcsmart home kcsmart]$ df -h /cdrom1 Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/cdrom1 iso9660 494M 495M 0 100% /cdrom1
Those are discs 1, 2 and 3 respectively. I recall 7.2 was similar, though I believe disc 3 was <400M instead.
Checking the MD5SUMS should reveal any other problems. Also the software used to burn and the platform it's being burned on might be something to consider. But outside bad downloads (I never check the checksums myself, I just make coasters when they're wrong, a bad habit I need to break) I've never had any problems burning the downloaded ISOs.
Have I just been lucky?
Patrick Lankhorst wrote:
Hi,
When I try to install RH 7.3, it stops with the following error:
Error when trying to install package xxx (it does this with
different packages)
This can indicate a bad installation medium, lack of disk space or hardware failure.
Press OK to reboot.
I've tried installing on 3 different PC's, from 3 different brands of CD-R / CD-RW, 5 different CD-ROM's, I've downloaded the ISO's from 3 different mirrors, burned them with 2 different programs. The disk space on all 3 PC's is sufficient, one of them has 200 Gb on the / volume (just for this test).
I hope someone can tell me why this is going wrong, and what i can do about it.
Thanks
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