decompression error at 93%?

[mikeydread]

thanks spyder tech, i finally got the boot cd to work and i booted computer with my win drive as primary master,cd as primary slave,and the new 120gb drive as secondary master. all jumpers are verified, all connections are verfied and repluged,the image came from here i burned it at 4x the slowest my cd burner would go.. im using a win95 300mhz cpu, 128 ram w/dvd drive. my problem is i cant get the boot process to complete,the error i get is restore failed:decompression error...93%. ive been reading up on it and it sounds like it could be several things. i think im gonna try another computer tomm. the other one is a win98 cpu 500mhz, with 128 ram cd drive. this seems to be the most common answer i see other than downloading image again or burning it again.what do the profesionals think?

[pharpe]

I was having the same problem a couple weeks ago when I decided to format and reload extreme. I had read some posts that people were having problems loading extreme with newer CD drives. I got an old 8x drive out of the closet and it worked like a charm.

[mikeydread]

i tried the other cpu, win98 one and i couldnt get it to work on that one, exchanged hard drive at retailer and tried again on win95 computer still error at 93%, this time it shows this after the error ...
/#y
sh:y:command not found
anyone got a clue what this means???

[BubbleLamp]

It can sometimes be a bad burn. Try burning it at a slower speed too.

[David Bought]

Try burning it at a slower speed too.

Wrong, he's already burning at the slowest speed. Read the thread before you post something stupid next time.

mikey: Ensure that the image is not corrupted by comparing checksums of the CD, of the downloaded image, and of a known good image. The md5sum utility can be useful for that.

[mikeydread]

thanks david... im not all that computer savy so im not sure how to do checksum, but i did compare the sizes of the cd to the original on website and they are the same size, i burned 2 cd's at 2 different times from 2 different sources so i hope my luck aint that bad.both cd's give same error at same spot, i tried to put in tivo and it in a bootloop. so im gonna try to burn hd again. when u wanna start over do u have to format? or can u just let the boot cd overwrite what u have?also i read that people with problems like mine have edit boot parms for runideturbo=false and this fixed it?how do u type that command in when i try it says command not found or something? also i read that cd drive may be problem so i will try that now. any help would be appreciated....

[mikeydread]

well i tried that other drive and it still does a decompression error at 93%. when i watch it it gets all the way up to 99% and 1364mb and then it reverts back to the decomp error at 93. i think im stumped !PLEASE HELP ... ok answer this do i have to create the 4-7-9 partions on the hard drive before i write the iso iimage?thanks for all your help guys and gals.....

[Mr817]

what snytax are you using to do this with ?

. Try this for starters. Just do the main drive we can mfsadd the other later this is just a test

mfsrestore -zpi /mnt/c/Whatever.bak /dev/hdc


see what happens.