[XCSSA] Problem with Devil-Linux

[xcssa@xcssa.org]

On Thursday 20 September 2007 13:07:05 xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
> After the Monday meeting I decided to give DL a try.  However at this point
> I have not been able to get past the first step.
>
> I think the problem is a corrupted  'etc.tar.bz2.'    When I try to install
> it to the USB flash drive  I get various error messages and the install
> hangs.

I also had that problem when I tried the USB install script a month or so ago.  
I think that we just ended up using the CD ROM iso.  Also... I burned version 
1.2.13-i686-SMP and it didn't seem to boot on my hardware.  So if you have 
similar problems, you might want to try a slightly older version.


> I have downloaded from several sites and burned the cd on different
> machines with the same result.  MD5SUM of the downloaded iso is correct
> but the bootcd.iso and etc.tar.bz2 show much  variation in size between
> downloads.

This is because it comes with the boot.iso as well as everything that you need 
to make your own distro. :)

Check the md5sum of your boot.iso.  Is should be:
[tweeks@localhost devil-linux-1.2.13-i686-SMP]$ md5sum bootcd.iso
720c5b6c6ac2ef37d21e423f91b4db3c  bootcd.iso

To burn it:
	$ cdrecord -eject bootcd.iso

Hope that helps.

Tweeks