From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 12 11:35:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA03442 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 11:35:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bureau-de-poste.utcc.utoronto.ca (bureau-de-poste.utcc.utoronto.ca [128.100.132.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA03432 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 11:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atka.feut.utoronto.ca ([142.150.33.89]) by bureau-de-poste.utcc.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <801217(2)>; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 14:33:52 -0400 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960712183341.006e4eac@mailbox1.utcc.utoronto.ca> X-Sender: martin.loeffler@mailbox1.utcc.utoronto.ca X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 14:33:41 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Martin Loeffler Subject: v2.1 install failed Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Install of FreeBSD v2.1 on a Dell Pentium 60 with 16 Meg RAM, NEC 2x IDE cd-rom drive, and Seagate ST32140A 2.1G IDE hard drive, failed with the following error messages: VTY1: Failed to load the ROOT distribution. Please correct this problem and try again. VTY2: gunzip: stdin: Input/output error /stand/cpio: premature end of file DEBUG: Dummy [default] close called for wcd0c with fd of 6 DEBUG: Switching back to VTY1 None of which makes sense to me, other than it seems to be a problem reading the CD. I chose a novice-Developer installation, using the whole of the disk for the install (with auto-partitioning). Any insight would be welcome. Thanks, M. -- 8th habit of Highly Effective People - They don't get in my way. Martin Loeffler, Curator of Computing Technology TEL Centre, Faculty of Education, University of Toronto martin.loeffler@utoronto.cao.ca