From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 7 21:43:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA05199 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 21:43:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from comoro.yorku.ca (comoro.yorku.ca [130.63.236.55]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA05186 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 21:43:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Dan.yorku.ca (shemp10.slip.yorku.ca [130.63.122.59]) by comoro.yorku.ca (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id AAA26365 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 00:43:42 -0400 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960708044316.006854fc@postoffice.yorku.ca> X-Sender: yu120560@postoffice.yorku.ca X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 00:43:16 -0400 To: questions@FreeBSD.org From: Dan Ziegler Subject: Help! Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm trying to install FreeBSD...everything was going smoothly 'til it began to actually copy over the files. Here's my error, perhaps you can translate it into something resembling english for me :) "Failed to load ROOT dist" (which seems relatively straightforward) Command line output: "gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data -- format violated /stand /cpio: premature end of file DEBUG: Dummy [default] close called for wd0s1 with fd of 6" I tried re-downloading the root.flp image, but got the same error. I'm installing from a DOS partition, and my dos dirs are set up the way the install doc says. What do I need to do/replace?? --------------------------------------------------------- Dan Ziegler EMail: yu120560@yorku.ca Web: http://www.finearts.yorku.ca/dziegler/3rdmnsn.htm ---------------------------------------------------------