[Server-devel] Possible problem with school server image

[Carol Lerche]

Sorry, I realized that I didn't give the download url:

wget http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/OLPC_XS_LATEST.iso

as directed on [[XS_Installing_Software]]

On Feb 3, 2008 9:43 AM, Carol Lerche <cafl at msbit.com> wrote:

> Symptoms:
>
> Downloaded twice and got the same md5sum on both downloads, to wit:
> ade95bcbccf1bc7409615472f85ca8b3
>
> Twice, burned CDROM (on two different machines), each time after booting
> from CDROM, when choosing the third option:  verify and run from image, get
> I/O error at block 229586, then message
>
> Verifying ISO image...
> /dev/root: could not get pvd data
> Unable to read the disc checksum from the primary volume descriptor.
> This probably means the disk was created without adding the checksum.Bugin init
> ramfs /init detected.
> Dropping to a shell.
> Good luck!
>
> It does drop to a shell.  I want to know before going farther, whether
> this is just a packaging error or whether the image is bad.  Further, it
> would be helpful if the md5sum could be separately saved in the download
> directory, so that at least one could verify if the download was
> successful.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Carol Lerche
>
>


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