Don't get that far .. This error happens right in the beginning before any
commands can be given ..
BRW
-Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Johnny Hughes
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 2:02 PM
To: CentOS Users
Subject: Re: [Centos] Error on attempted upgrade ..
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 10:58 -0800, Brian Watters wrote:
> We are seeing some very strange errors and hope that someone out there
> has seen this before and has an idea of how to overcome ..
>
> Upgrading from RH9 to CentOS 3.4 on a IBM Netfinity 5000
>
> After booting to disk 1 of the CD set we enter "linux upgradeany" and
> it starts the boot process and gets to
>
> Uncompressing Linux ....
>
> Invalid Compressed Format (err=2)
>
> --System Halted
>
> Now we thought it could be a bad CD burn so we burned again .. same
> error .. Then we thought maybe it was the media type so we burned on a
> different media .. Same error .. Help!
>
> BRW
That machine is not on the HCL ...
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/hwcert/list.cgi?product=Red+Hat+Hardware+Certific
ation&quicksearch=netfinity
you might try "linux upgradeany text"
--
Johnny Hughes
<http://www.HughesJR.com/>
