Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 20:26 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

> Anyway, I now have a repeat install failure, on the same file it 
> upchucked over before I believe, this time while doing a full 
> automatic install on /dev/hdb.
> 
> >From the installer screen:
> 
> There was an error installing openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-10.  This can 
> indicate media failure, lack of disk space and/or hardware problems.  
> This is a fatal error and your install will be aborted.  Please 
> verify your media and try your install again.
> 
> >From the end of the /mnt/sysimage/root/install.log:
> 
> error: unpacking of archive failed on 
> file /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program/resource/svx64508.res; 41f03elf: cpio: 
> MD5SUM mis-match.
> 
> There didn't seem to be anything related to that in 
> the /mnt/sysimage/root/install.log.syslog.
> 
> Now, this all points to a bum cd, but its been md5sum'd several times 
> now.  Chances are than a restart will work.  Maybe.  Its failed 2 out 
> of three times through this loop now.  I'll see if an older burner I 
> have will fit without having to hack up the face of the box with a 
> hacksaw tomorrow, it was working just fine in this box when I took it 
> out to make room for a dvd burner last spring.
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I have had problems too when I burn the images on the CD Writer in my
faster machines. I now slow down the write speed to 4x when I burn
install images (fedora, whitebox etc.) - At 4x write speed, they never
seem to fail me.

Craig