Re: Install problem with .tgz files?
At 04:34 PM 12/14/1998 +0000, Martin Smith wrote:
>I recently bought my first computer - a Cyrix P180 without an OS - and
>have been trying unsuccessfully for the last week to install Linux. I
>hope someone can help this frustrated newbie.
>
>I first tried to install Debian 2.0 using CDs from CheapBytes.
>Everything went fine until it came time to install the base system, at
>which time the machine said it couldn't read the file base2_0.tgz.
>There was an error message obscured by the curses window which looked
>like it said something about invalid compressed data. After a bunch of
>fruitless fooling around, I downloaded the base system from the net onto
>floppies and was able to install it that way, although the system hung
>when it tried to reboot.
>
>I now have a bash shell, but when I now run dselect, I get a number of
>error messages something like the following:
>
>gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data -crc error
>dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 2
>dpkg: error processing -/var/lib/dpkg/blahblahlah (-install)
>corrupted file system tar file
>corrupted package archive
>
>What's going wrong?
>
>Martin Smith
According to: http://electron.phys.dal.ca/Hardware-HOWTO-4.html
>A few very early AMD 486DX's may hang in some special situations. All
>current chips should be okay and getting a chip swap for old CPU's should
>not be a
>problem.
>
>ULSI Math*Co series has a bug in the FSAVE and FRSTOR instructions that
>causes problems with all protected mode operating systems. Some older IIT and
>Cyrix chips may also have this problem.
However, I doubt this relates to you. Other sites I scanned indicate that
there's no problem between recent Cyrix chips and Linux, so you can
probably ignore my earlier suggestion to that effect. I'd still suspect
other hardware issues. Also, you might try tinkering with some of the
settings in CMOS (turn off Power Management, etc).
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