I tried an ftp install. It connects then fails immediately with an error that starts "This Should not happen!' I just found an update on bugzilla on bug number that seems to address a similar problem. Will try the fix tomorrow and let you know what happens. -----Original Message----- From: psyche-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:psyche-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Iain Buchanan Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 10:32 PM To: psyche-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Compaq Presario 5610 cannot install RH8 On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 14:54, Cy Ball wrote: [snip] > The file /mnt/sysimage/var/tmp/glibc-common-2.93-5.386.rpm cannot be opened. > This is due to a missing file, a bad package, or bad media. Press <return> > to try again. [snip] > The install always fails. > > I need help badly. I also had a similar problem with various installs. The media check returned ok for all cd's. The only way I could get around it was to put the cd contents onto another machine and do an ftp install. -- Iain Buchanan <iain@nospam.pcorp.com.au> We don't smoke and we don't chew, and we don't go with girls that do. -- Walter Summers -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list