Yes, I apparently have the same problem. I bought Debian 2.2 CD-Rs from Cheapbytes and Setup complains about missing rescue floppies. blah... I guess that's $$ down the drain.
chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Hanchrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 8:53 PM Subject: Anyone else have CheapBytes CD trouble? > I just received my Debian 2.2 CDs from Cheapbytes -- 3 binary > CD-ROMS. I could not boot off the first one (the installation program > complained that it couldn't mount the rescue image). > > I decided to run `md5sum' on each file on the CD-ROM, and compare its > output with the file /cdrom/md5sum.txt. I was surprised to find that > they differed. Here's how I did it: > > (cd /cdrom; find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum) > > Here's one file whose sum isn't what the md5sum file says it should be > (there are many other such files): > > 7eea9e34469920cf5b3de06e527186bb ./dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44/rescue.bin > dc8e866f3a26cfa8a38f15d328519c92 ./dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44/rescue.bin > > Some of the files seem to be random data; one file whose name ends in > `.tgz' is actually text. > > Has anyone else had this problem? > > -- > PGP Fingerprint: 3E7B A3F3 96CA 8958 ACC5 C8BD 6337 0041 C01C 5276 >
