install/38453: install crash

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>Number:         38453
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       install crash
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    install-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 17 19:35:00 +0000 2008
>Originator:     MandrakeRoot
>Release:        4
>Organization:
>Environment:
toshiba satellite m  series laptop. i386 4.0 distro
>Description:
I have attempted to install netbsd 4.0 on a partition (not a dedicated drive ) 
and encountered these problems :

The fdisk program ( or whatever its name is) from the install outputs some 
strange symbols in the fdisk table under the  the column " boot menu " - it is 
the column in which the name of the partition should be displayed  (ie NetBSd , 
linux, Windows etc).

Then during the install process it crashes after outputting some error messages 
concerning disk space.

Digging deeper i found these. The iso ,although matched through checksums with 
the code on your website - ergo correctly downloaded - does not provide the 
same checksum with the burnt cd. And it's not a problem with my cd-burner (eg 
another distro from openbsd matches). And watching the install behavior i 
suspect it is a distro error as i remember installing a few years ago on the 
same machine(and similar disk layout) another netbsd and it went ok through the 
install process. I have used gnome 2 tools to burn the iso.

this is the iso checksum: ok as you can see 

sha512sum downloads/i386cd-4.0.iso 
d1bde0f30d12d4ae3f1b15dd4f2e264dc6d2ecd03a630ed6a220a185b2684d10327f7c17ad60b9614e0c7788b76103d7ac195c24b904243f6fb7fd71623cd841

this is the checksum from the cdrom :

dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=123641 |sha512sum 
123641+0 records in
123641+0 records out
253216768 bytes (253 MB) copied, 121.937 seconds, 2.1 MB/s
788105a061a604bd6780ca4c6dbe1f308732412136ce80562f2620e0e6562f859acb43ade6391ddd61c0671667f22b4a32abcacab79111b45e7832040c47d78e
  

as you can see they don't match

but, interesting enough :

 dd if=downloads/i386cd-4.0.iso bs=2048 count=123641 |sha512sum 
123641+0 records in
123641+0 records out
788105a061a604bd6780ca4c6dbe1f308732412136ce80562f2620e0e6562f859acb43ade6391ddd61c0671667f22b4a32abcacab79111b45e7832040c47d78e
  

reading the iso with the same parameters as the cd brings out the same checksum 
: -definitely not a write error. I'm not a unix guru, maybe they're supposed to 
be this way, but nonetheless the install crashes so i thought i'd let you know.

Thnx.
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