[CentOS] Re: problems copying distro files

Tue Sep 5 04:40:31 UTC 2006
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

Scott Silva wrote:
> 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.
>   
Now that is scary.  TCP SHOULD handle both missing datagrams and 
datagrams out of order; within your window of course.

I could see it with a bad stack implementation like Win98.....


Well I will try downloading again and reburning.