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Re: Linux Installer Problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Tue Feb 3 11:37:30 2004

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The ISO works for me (just checked it right now) -- so I suspect
a problem with you CD-ROM Writer.

-derek

"J. Frisbie" <frisbie@MIT.EDU> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to use the linux installer CD image from
> /mit/bootkit/rhlinux dated 7/28/2003. But the system
> halts while uncompressing linux. I've burned two
> CDs and both seem to have correctly copied the image
> cksum athena.iso and /dev/cdrom (with the CD in it) 
> produce the same results.
>
> The exact error messages is:
>
> Uncompressing Linux ...
>
> crc error
>
>  -- System halted.
>
> I've tried two different PCs, one with a known-to-work
> CD-ROM with the same result.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
>

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