[clue-tech] CentOS 5 update problems

[David L. Anselmi]

Mark G. Harvey wrote:
[...]
> I took the DVD+R which I created from the downloaded .iso file & tried a physical install on
> an old workstation (1GB RAM & P4 1.7 GHz).  During the first part of the install, there is an
> option to do a media check.  I did ... and after scanning the media, I got a result ...
> failure.  This inspite of the .iso file passing the md5sum check.  So, I'm downloading a new
> DVD .iso file from http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/centos/5.0/isos/i386/  
> 
> This whole fiasco could have been caused by a corruption.  There should be a way of telling
> kernel.org that their DVD .iso is bad.  

Sounds like the DVD you burned is bad, not the .iso.  Do the kernel.org 
and chpc.utah.edu ISOs have the same checksum?  If so you'll get the 
same thing you already have.  There are threads here (or on BLUG) about 
getting things to burn correctly.

Dave