"Possible"? Yes. *Likely*? No. Especially not such a core file as libc6, the one library that nearly every application program uses.
OTOH, the current version of this package is 2.2.5-14 (in Sid, which I use here, and probably in Woody too). And you don't way how either your CD or your DVD was made. Occasionally, the Debian online pachage system contains a bad backage. I've never seen this persist for more than a day ... but if you or someone else constructed an .iso at just the wrong time, you could have a bad package or two. Especially if you did it *before* Woody became Debian-stable (back when it was Debian-testing). Assuming you have the target system set up with a connection to the Internet, you might do better to download the Debian install floppies and do an online installation (the installer on the CDs may even support this ... I haven't used Debian CDs is a very long time so don't really know). This would get you the current versions of all the packages, including all security updates. At 09:39 AM 9/10/02 +0100, geoff wrote: >I have two separate copies of the Debian GNU/Linux "Woody" 3.0 distro. >One is on CDROMs, the other is on a DVD-ROM. > >They both fail to install when the installation reaches >libc6_2.2.5-6_i386.deb >which is stated to be corrupt. > >Is it possible that a corrupt file is being distributed, or must I look >closer to home ? > >My other distros (Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE 8.0 and FreeBSD4.4 Unix) all >install OK >including the SuSE DVD version. > >Anyone else had a similar experience ? >I particularly want to test drive Debian and the .deb installation system. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
