Robert Moskowitz wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > It may be an idea to check the MD5 sums for the ISOs *before* burning them......I learnt this one quite a long time ago after a series of inexplicable errors (and a lot of wasted time and CDs!).......and all the problem ISOs in question had been downloaded under Windoze (both ME and XP).