From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: I'm trying to upgrade a laptop from RH9 to Fedora using an FTP install. I download stage2.img from the ftp site and then anaconda falls over. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot from bootdisk.img, choose ftp intall, and insert driver disk 2. enter ip and ftp information 3. watch stage2.img download Actual Results: Crash with following message: error 2 reading header: cpio: Bad magic Running anaconda, the Fedora Core system installer - please wait... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 341, in ? import signal, traceback, string, isys, iutil, time File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.ps", line 22, in ? from rhpl.log import log ImportError: No module named rhpl.log install exited abnormally sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done disabling swap.. unmounting filesystems... /mnt/runtime done disabling /dev/loop0 /proc/bus/usb done /proc done /dev/pts done /tmp/ramfs done you may safely reboot your system Expected Results: Continue with install Additional info: I've also tried this with linux -noprobe. I have to pick the appropriate driver for the ethernet (3c59x). Stage2.img downloads OK then I get a message: The following devices have been found on your system 3Com ... (3c59x) with options "Done" and "Add Device". I've already added this device and if I choose "Add Device", the 3c59x driver is gone. So I choose "Done" and get the same error as above.
Created attachment 96450 [details] /sbin/lspci -v for the machine in question
This sounds like bits got scrambled in transit -- is it reproducible? If so, does memtest86 show any problems with your machine?
This is reproducible. No errors in memtest86. The same thing happens booting off a CD. But only when downloading the image from linux.stanford.edu. Using mirrors.kernel.org works just fine. I should have tried another image. Trying to install from iso images off the hard disk fails after entering the location of the images. Don't know what that's about. This suggests there's something wrong with the image at linux.stanford.edu.
This looks like it was a mirror problem and hasn't resurfaced with newer releases.