On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:42:03AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 09:07, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > > > tar: Bad tar header, skipping [I got this 31 times] > > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > You said that you burned the CD a few times, but did you verify the .iso > image was correct? You can find MD5 sums for the official images here: > http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/mirrors/debian-cd/3.0_r0/jigdo/powerpc > > Plenty of people have used the official install CD (including me), so > I'm pretty sure it works. I strongly suspect data corruption on your > end somewhere along the line.
I checked the CD's I downloaded and the md5sums work perfectly. I skipped using the netinstalls and tried the official CD's and the MD5s matched. Same result. I even tried 3 different mirrors to download the CD's and packages, all with the same result. WTF? :)
