Hi. I had similar problems installing an SS5 clone. As fare as I remember, I solved it by installing the base systems from floppy, later on I could use the CD set as the installation media.
Regards, Hartwig On Wednesday 04 December 2002 22:10, Luca Zampetti wrote: > Yes, I know that this has nothing to do with you - but I am installing > debian linux for sparc on a SPARC machine and I am getting all the time > during the decompression of the files from the CDROM error messages about > "corrupt files" like this > > file: /instmnt/pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.9.21.sparc.deb was corrupt > > and if you hit enter > > cannot dowload dpkg > > and then the installation program breaks up. > > Suggestions? > > Thank you. > > Best regards, > > Luca Zampetti

