From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 5 22:33:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA10414 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 22:33:27 -0800 (PST) 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 WAA10408 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 22:33:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA00829; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 22:33:38 -0800 Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 22:33:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: mark naghsh cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation In-Reply-To: <199604060005.TAA11672@matrix.newpaltz.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, mark naghsh wrote: > > > What else um.../36M, /usr36M /var20M /swap 2*mem(16M) I do have limited > > > hard drive space. Maybe that is it? Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Although I'm not immediately familiar with what the exact disk size > > requirements are, but my guess is you're running out of space on /usr. > > Do you have the exact error message from the ALT-F2 screen? > > Here it is.. > DEBUG: Request for bin/bin.bx from dos > bin/csh > gunzip:stdin:invalid compressed data--format violated > Premature end of /stand/cpio > > This is why I thought it was a corrupt file. Any suggestions? Hm. From this it looks like the file isn't copying over cleanly from dos. I don't have a hypothesis at this point, plus DOS installs are not my forte. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major