This sounds like bad source. What are you installing from? If a CD, consider
the possibility that either the CD or the drive is defective (or, in the
case of the drive, it doesn't work right with Linux - some laptop CD drives,
for example, need special kernel patches to work correctly). If over the
network, consider the possibility that your source srchive is bad or the
network connection itself is flaky. If you downloaded any of these files,
might you have downloaded them as text instead of as binaries?
I'm not particularly a Red Hat fan, but the problems you're experiencing
aren't typical RH problems. Whatever the cause, other distributions may well
suffer from the same problems if you use the same method of installation.
At 12:40 PM 1/5/00 -0600, Laz Kadmon wrote [in part]:
> The install log for my pathetic attempts at installing RedHat 6.1 shows
>many rpm packages fail with the following:
>'unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic"
>
>this occurs firstly with glibc and then many more. The results are a
crippled system.
>After the package install it more or less dies and never builds a boot
floppy or LILO.
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Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
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