Re: problem with bzip2?

Here's the situation, in more detail:

I successfully boot from the CD, then created and mounted my
partitions, then tried to untar the stage3 archive.  As this failed, it
took me a while to figure that the error message was issued by
bzip2.  I tried to bzip2 -tvv the archive, which resulted in exactly
the same error message.  Further, I copied the file (no error) from
the cdrom to the already mounted root partition, and tried
bzip2 -tvv the local copy, which didn't work, either.

Now, it is copying the file from the cdrom to the disk that tells
me my CD is most probably ok.  Of course, the cdrom driver
might produce bogus data reading from certain types of cdroms.

I am running an XP on the same machine, so I reboot into XP,
copied the same file to the disk, and then proceeded to uncompress
and untar it with WinRAR, and it went as smoothly as possible.

Having in mind your experience, it's most probably a buggy
cdrom driver.  I'll try get a more robust cdrom drive, and I'll try
again.

Thanks.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guy" <[email protected]>
To: "Dinko Tenev" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-newbies] problem with bzip2?


I don't have an answer to your problem. I've installed with both 
the 1.2 and 1.4b ISOs with no problem. On one machine however, I 
did receive a message during the boot of the ISOs that the block 
size couldn't be detected so size 0800 was assumed. This 
indicates to me that some CDROM players may be problematical. Are 
you working with a new system or is that and already used machine 
you're dealing with?

Given what you reported regarding not having problems WinRAR (is 
this on a different machine perhaps?), I would consider the 
possibility of a CDROM drive problem.

Hope this helps!

On Thursday 05 September 2002 05:14 am, Dinko Tenev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am stuck at untarring the stage?-*.tbz2 files, because bzip2
> invariably reports bad CRC on all of them.  I am using the
> gentoo-i686-1.2.iso image.
>
> If I could be sure that this was a problem with either the CD
> or the files, I would be more than glad to burn another CD,
> but the files copy OK, and WinRAR uncompresses and untars
> them without any fuss whatsoever, except for a bunch of "can't
> create" messages for the A-Z sub-dirs of .../terminfo,
> obviously due to NTFS case-insensitivity.
>
> Why would bzip2 complain, and, what is more important, is
> there a way around this?
>
> I would appreciate _any_ comments.
>