[CentOS] Re: problems copying distro files

Tue Sep 5 13:51:18 UTC 2006
John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>

Robert Moskowitz wrote:

>>> '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.....

More likely, the downloads ser interrupted and resumed incorrectly. I 
don't think anyone's IP stack can be that bad _and_ be released into 
production.

> 
> 
> Well I will try downloading again and reburning.

Preferably with different software;-) I mostly use rsync.

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John

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