Re: Woody Install Error

[Matthew Daubenspeck <matt@oddprocess.org>]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:42:03AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 09:07, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> 
> > tar: Bad tar header, skipping [I got this 31 times]
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> You said that you burned the CD a few times, but did you verify the .iso
> image was correct?  You can find MD5 sums for the official images here:
> http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/mirrors/debian-cd/3.0_r0/jigdo/powerpc
> 
> Plenty of people have used the official install CD (including me), so
> I'm pretty sure it works.  I strongly suspect data corruption on your
> end somewhere along the line.

I checked the CD's I downloaded and the md5sums work perfectly.

I skipped using the netinstalls and tried the official CD's and the
MD5s matched.

Same result. I even tried 3 different mirrors to download the CD's and
packages, all with the same result. WTF? :)