From owner-freebsd-questions  Tue May  7 20:50:10 1996
Return-Path: owner-questions
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA18563
          for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 20:50:10 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA18507
          for <questions@FreeBSD.org>; Tue, 7 May 1996 20:49:58 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA09966; Tue, 7 May 1996 20:54:18 -0700
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 20:54:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
To: Amooooo@aol.com
cc: questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: got a ?
In-Reply-To: <960507132827_289008134@emout07.mail.aol.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960507205408.9210D-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

On Tue, 7 May 1996 Amooooo@aol.com wrote:

> 
> > Im a getting the following error msg as freebsd is getting installed.
>  
>  "Failed to load the root  distribution. Please correct this problem and try
>  again."
> 
> The debug screen msg:
> gunzip: stdini: invalid compressed 
> data--- crc error. /stand/ cpio: premature end of file
> Debug: Dummy [default] close called for cd0a with Fd of 6.
> 
> I have a 340 mg ide hard drive with P-75mhz intel system and scsi 2x cd rom.

What install media?  CDROM?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major