[WBEL-users] Problems with whitebox 3 respin2

Graham David Purcocks M.A.(Oxon.) grahamp at wsieurope.com
Mon Mar 21 05:05:31 CST 2005


Bittorrent is OK.

I downloaded all 3 and the MD5 sum is good on all the ISO's.

On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 13:40, Joe Price wrote:
> decampbell1 wrote:
> > I am doing a clean install of Whitebox Linux 3 respin 2.  I have 
> > downloaded the 3 .iso images and burned my CD's.  The first CD installs 
> > fine but almost immediately after inserting the second CD, I get an 
> > error message saying that "The package redhat-config-proc-0.23-0.EL3.1 
> > cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file or purhaps a corrupted 
> > package. If you are installing from CD media this usually means the CD 
> > media is corrupt, or the CD drive is unable to read the media."
> >  
> > I have downloaded the iso file for CD 2 three times from 3 different 
> > locations with the same results.  I am not sure what this package is or 
> > if I need it.  If it is "bells and whistles" that I don't need, then I 
> > need to know which package to uncheck to take it out of my install que. 
> >  
> > Thanks for your help
> >  
> > David Campbell
> >
> I don't know if this is relevant in your case but I've been looking at 
> MD5 sums of the ISO's because of checksum failures referred to in 
> earlier posts.  I've downloaded from 6 different mirrors and have seen 
> consistent failures on disk one with a few failures on disk two as well.
> 
> I finally did get a good disk one after downloading the second time from 
> one of the mirrors but disk two from that same mirror fails after the 
> second download.
> 
> If you're running winders to download the ISO's you might try Kana 
> Checksum available from Kana Solutions:
> http://www.kana.homeip.net/
> The consensus though seems to be using bittorent to download the ISO's 
> instead.  Can't give you any information on that though because I'm not 
> familiar with it myself.
> 
> Maybe that's some help anyway.
> 
> Joebewan
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