[newbie] bad magic number

2001-07-19 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hi all, After about a week of frustration, I finally got mandrake 8 running on my home network, but I think I might have done something very wrong. I have 2 drives, but hdb5 ? was not mounted. I mounted it and rebooted, and got the message that the superblock could not be read.. and fsck

Re: [newbie] Bad Magic???

2001-03-23 Thread Civileme
; From: Matt Schroeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 2:24 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Bad Magic??? > > > > I have read that that message signifies a bad rpm download. It is > > referring apparently to a c

Re: [newbie] Bad Magic???

2001-03-23 Thread A V Flinsch
On Friday 23 March 2001 15:17, you wrote: > here's the thing. it happens to any RPM that I download. > > Moose What are you using to do the download? Did you remenber to do it in binary mode? Can you install a rpm off of the distro CD? -- Alex Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in comma

[newbie] Bad Magic???

2001-03-22 Thread Kelly, Christopher
I got an error when trying to install an RPM: Unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad Magic What the heck does that mean and how can I fix it??? Much thanks as always, Moose