On Friday 08 February 2002 08:33 pm, you wrote: > I am installing Slackware on a Compaq Armada 4150. Pentium 150 and 16M RAM. > I am installing over NFS with a wireless NIC<cool huh?>. I downloaded the > ISO from linuxiso.com. I mounted the ISO as a loop device and the install > starts flawlessly. However, before it can make it past its first directory > of packages I get errors. tar errors Grandchild . <I don't have the errors > staring at me ATM. It complains that the archive has errors at the > beginning. It tells me to make sure I downloaded the files in binary and > that they are not corrupt. I wonder if the date being set to 1980 might > have something to do with this? I changed it in the BIOS, but it does not > stay set. I try and change it with date -s 02/08/02 <and many other date > variances> to no avail. Has anyone seen symptoms like these before. Does > anyone have any suggestions for installing Linux on the RAM defiecient > lappy? RH wants 24M for a remote install. > Well, two thoughts more. I found the directory named isos in the slackware folder, so I am grabbing that now. The other, and it is a long shot, I changed the name of the first iso I grabbed from linuxiso.com. So, I will try with this no un-renamed image. just gimme some slack...