-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 16:23:37 -0800 (PST), Here and There wrote:
> > Following the "boot:" prompt (at which I press > > Enter) > > when booting off the first of the Red Hat 8.0 5-CD > > set, (after "booting vmlinuz......", etc.) after the > > first screen clears, the following appears at the > > top > > of the cleared screen: > > =============================================== > > Uncompressing Linux ... > > > > crc error > > > > -- System halted > > > > =============================================== > > The CD from which I was booting had just previously > > completed an install of RH8.0. I then had to > > reinstall, but a gcompat file had a problem or > > something, so I tried again and I am now > > > > consistently getting this error. > > I then tried burning another CD from the downloaded > > image, which produced the same error. > > Again, the image downloaded was used to sucessfully > > install once and did pass the media test, as did the > > rest of the 5-CD set. > > > > Any idea what is causing this or what is wrong here? > > > > A quick reply would be helpful as I have until this > > sunday afternoon to install a MySQL webserver. > > Sorry about that, folks. Apparently the message > referred to means that there is a bad stick of RAM in > your computer. (tried install on another -> worked; > tried swapping RAM on problem -> works now). Well, the message means exactly what is printed on the screen. The checksum of the package didn't match. Nothing further. The installer cannot know whether the reason is bad media, bad RAM or otherwise unstable hardware. However, that the CDs passed the media check whereas using the CDs resulted in errors was an indication of a hardware problem. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+BEgQ0iMVcrivHFQRAoyrAJ925/I+pgoQ/0jZJ9sgZCElWgHT8wCeORRN LJiuhL+RBP1vUo4bQM8n8MQ= =geoC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
