[CentOS] Re: problems copying distro files

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Tue Sep 5 00:21:21 UTC 2006


Robert Moskowitz spake the following on 9/4/2006 8:26 AM:
> At this point in my lab, the only solid servers I have are Win2000.
> 
> So I xcopy the distro CDs into a directory that I make available for
> install via ftp.
> 
> Well I have had problems copying files from this distro.
> I had to use the /c option in xcopy to get past the problem files..
> 
> A few examples are:
> 
> The following files in the image directory of disk 1 has 'File creation
> error - The parameter is incorrect.":
> 
> README
> boot.iso
> diskboot.img
> pxeboot/README
> 
> My screen buffer is only 400, so I missed any errors in the first 1500
> files.  And I think there was one earlier (the reason why I had to add
> the /c option).
> 
> On I think CD 3 in the Centos/RPMS the file tix.8.1.4-98.i386.rpm had a
> 'File creation error -Date error (cyclic redundancy check).
> 
> I created both CDs twice from the ISO images, getting these errors. 
> There may be others.
> 
> Any input on this?
You might have bad ISO images. They can easily be corrupted during download.
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