Re: Booting from CD fails

Thanks for answer Simon,

We buy a RedHat Linux box from RedHat Inc, so that it is supposed to be
fine (?)

I'll check the MD5SUM anyway..

Any additional idea?

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Simon White wrote:

> 19-Apr-02 at 11:45, Iris Silva ([email protected]) wrote :
> > I don't know what is exactly happening with a new RH 6.2 Sparc
> > instalation:
> >
> > Booting from CDROM:
> >
> > boot: expert
> > Uncompressing image ...
> > Loading initial ramdisk
> > \
> > Remapping the kernel ... done
> > Booting Linux
> >
> > And that's it!!
>
> First thing to do: check the MD5SUM of the downloaded ISO against the RH
> given MD5SUM, if you burned the CD. I had similar problems, I think the CD
> images tend to be prone to corruption (long dl time) and you must always
> check the MD5 of the .iso file you have against the FTP site MD5 sum.
>
> Simon.
>
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