Re: Cheapbytes CDs
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:41:07PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> "Assad Khan" wrote:
>
> > I got Debian 2.1 slink from Cheapbytes a few weeks back. base2_1.tgz is
> > corrupted, even though I got a 4 CD set. So now I dont have Linux
> > installed on my second hard drive at all! :-((
>
> A friend had a problem installing base2_1.tgz from my Cheapbytes
> 4 CD set (I only upgraded). However, I note that it appears to
> match a version on the Debian site:
Well, that's two of us :). A friend of mine also had problems installing slink
from the Cheapbytes CDs (exactly the same problem: base2_1.tgz was corrupted)
UNTIL we find out that the problems was not the CDs, but the memory: he had two
64Mb DIMMs. When he removed one of them, he could start installing slink, but
then it just froze after he reboot the system with a kernel panic error.
Everything was smoothly when he changed to four 32Mb DIMMs.
As you can see, sometimes the problem isn't the media, but something else.
just my 2 cents.
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Pedro Guerreiro (aka digito) (pguerreiro@bigfoot.com)
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