David Ellsmore wrote: > 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). Where is there an MD5 calc program for win32?