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Corrupted downloads
Trying to get some help on a problem that I have had with a linux box that I have.
When I would try and install RedHat 9, first off of burned cds, later I paid $29 for the over the counter cds. I would fail, media error. I ripped cd drives out, cables, and retried. Same thing. Ripped HD out, cables out, and retried. Same thing. Took apart my Windows machine, put the linux HD in there, bam installs like a dream, btw the CD drive from the linux box was in the Windows machine. So I put the HD back in teh box and it works fine, try to download software, and $%@$@# it doesnt work, archives are all corrupt, were talking, Sun Java binaries, Apache, VSFTP, all kinds of software that I have downloaded in the past with no troubles what-so-ever. One thing I noticed was if I were to shut-off the box and the start-up, immediatly download the software, turn off the box again, startup and immediatly extract whatever archive it was, it would usually work. Since its my person play thing, I lived with it. This past week I downloaded and burned Debian, put the CD for the net-install, booted and bam as soon as it started downloading the packages, corrupt archives ... $&^$&#$^#. So I had a brand new motherboard, I had a brand new stick of memory, I had brand new cables, I gutted the box and reinstalled everything. Start up, net-install, everything is great. Next day start putting on wget, download to my windows box, and ftp over to my Debian box, tar zxvf ... corrupt. #&$#*#(, unzip the archive without a problem on my windows box.
Right now the only thing I have never replaced or used successfully elsewhere is the CPU. Does anyone else have any other thoughts, comments, questions.
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