[Discuss] Re: installpkg error #2

[Timothy Brush]

Tim,

   Most of the time error messages like those you mentioned results from damaged media or a bad burn.  I've seen it happen using different versions of Linux and BSD.  Peter makes an excellent point to burn the image at a slower speed.  This should resolve this type of problem and will also extend the media's life (yes, unfortunately CDs do have a life like tape).  Also, if you have a rewritable CD writer - I would recommend using a rewritable CD (allows for fewer _coasters_, especially when you start mastering your own CDs).  If you do continue to have problems, it is possible it's the CD drive but bad media is much more likely...

   As for inodes - unless you're using very small partitions, 1 / 4096 bytes is fine.  Inodes are address locations on a partition.  An inode may refer to a file, directory, "named" pipe, socket, and character or block devices.  A 10 GB partition (1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 10) would contain over 2.5 million inodes... you should have plenty to spare.  ;-)

   I hope this helps a bit.

Cheers,
Tim




 
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