Thanks for the reply.  I updated the bios on the sk8v with the beta version 
that was posted on the asus website.

bad news got a cmos error.  Went through all the proper steps, called tech 
at asus and I fried the bios chip they
are sending me a new one, so next week I'll try this again.  But this was a 
fresh install, fresh fdisk and I did the first emerge sync and this happened.

tim

At 12:16 AM 7/9/2005, you wrote:
>Am Samstag 09 Juli 2005 08:54 schrieb Tim Ames:
> > At 11:44 PM 7/8/2005, you wrote:
> > >Errors with both md5 and gzip?  Can you use a separate computer to
> > >determine if the problem is with md5/gzip programs or corruption of the
> > >distfiles themselves?
> > >
> > >Zac
> >
> >
> > I was able to download the gzip from the mirror and put them in my
> > /distfiles  dir  and for example I was able to do that to wvdial and 
> emerge
> > it on the system and get it working.  But I couldn't download anything 
> from
> > a mirror on the sk8v machine and emerge it on that machine.  I was able to
> > start all over again move a stage 3 tarball over and run it, compile the
> > kernel, but then the same problem started all over again after the first
> > emerge sync.
> >
> > still scratching my head
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Tim
> >
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> >
> >
>Hello,
>please have a look on your FETCHCOMMAND / RESUMECOMMAND in /etc/make.conf.
>
>(emerge --info -v | grep COMMAND)
>
>FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -t 5 --passive-ftp -P ${DISTDIR} ${URI}"
>RESUMECOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -c -t 5 --passive-ftp -P ${DISTDIR} ${URI}"
>
>You should be really sure, thaht you have removed any old files from
>your /distfiles dir. I had also strange problems with a wrong RESUMECOMMAND
>and partilly download files.
>
>To get an idea what is wrong, try to download a small packages.
>Please make an emerge -f app-admin/perl-cleaner.
>After that compare the
>digest  /usr/portage/app-admin/perl-cleaner/files/digest-perl-cleaner-1.01
>with thhe downloaded file.
>cd /usr/portage/distfiles
>md5sum perl-cleaner-1.01.tar.gz
>a657d9e9264cd9f550bd2c55c1220785  perl-cleaner-1.01.tar.gz
>ls -l perl-cleaner-1.01.tar.gz
>I hope this will clarify, if you have problem with downloading the file or
>with gzip/md5sum.
>
>Best regards Joerg
>
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