Invalid Compressed Image - part 2

[Brian Kelsay]

If you are having errors with several different CD drives at random 
places and also errors w/ dev/hda it is very possible that you have a 
bad IDE controller on the motherboard.  To rule this out you should try 
known good and working hardware (HDD,CD, motherboard).  This is not 
really something that can be troubleshot over email, even with error 
messages.  If you need help bring the box to the next meeting, let me 
know that you are going to do so and I will bring known good hardware 
(HDD, CD, NIC, video card, etc.).  Right now my hand is all bandaged up, 
but I could direct you w/ the screwdriver.

I thought I had a bad burn on Redhat 9, but it turned out I had a bad CD 
drive in my new webserver.  Swapped it out and it worked fine.  I burnt 
a new copy of disk one for no good reason.  If you got some of this 
hardware off the junk pile, as some of us are wont to do, you can expect 
some problems like this.  You must have patience grasshopper, for the 
flesh is weak and the hardware sometimes flakey.

Brian

Chris Hoelscher wrote:

> Well, believe it or not, it may be that this error was being thrown out
> by my CDRom drive (a Takaya 12x from 1997...)  I swapped it with an old
> (1997) NEC, and it would boot Linux.
> 
> However, I have had no joy....  The install has started (a number of
> times) but will eventually die on either the CDROM drive "not ready" or
> an I/O error on the hard drive.
> 
> Of note - got one of the Cendyne (brandy-new) 48x CDRW's that are
> currently free after rebate at Office Max.  This will boot Linux, but
> then asks if I want to do FTP, NFS, Local CD, Local hard drive install -
> because after booting from the CD, it seems to lose it's mind and can't
> find the CD in the reader!!  Same thing with two different physical
> CD's.
> 
> Now with the old NEC in there, it starts o.k., partitions the drive, and
> then while installing packages (different packages each of 3 times) the
> hard drive goes "not ready" (sorry, didn't get the exact error message
> written down - it was late when I gave up last night).
> 
> D'ya think I may need to start back a little?  What I did was partition
> my 120G drive (using Maxtor tools) thus;
> 
> 12 gig NTFS
> 12 gig FAT32
> left the rest empty (to format with Linux)
> 
> Since then, I have deleted the 12 gig FAT32 partition, and installed
> XP-Pro on the NTFS partition.
> 
> When in Linux install, I have tried to allow "automatic" partition, but
> never works.  Manually, I have tried a couple of things such as:
> 
> 6 gig /
> 256 meg /boot
> rest /home, 2 gig /home, etc.
> 
> Format goes o.k., although I didn't take the time to "check for bad
> blocks"....
> 
> Then, like I said, install dies at various packages, and on one of the
> alternate consoles I see /hda spewing errors....
> 
> Any other thoughts off hand?
> 
> Currently d'loading Mandrake 9.1 to try...really not locked on RedHat,
> just wanting to to a MythTV in the box...
> 
> Thanks -