From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 15 11:15:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA16611 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:15:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from caau.ca.br.np.els-gms.att.net (caau.ca.br.np.els-gms.att.net [199.191.128.166]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA16598 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:15:14 -0700 (PDT) From: /G=David/S=Sandel/DD.ALISA=SANDELD@mhs-emerson.attmail.com Received: from mhs!emerson by /C=US/AD=ATTMAIL;Mon Apr 15 18:13:51 -0000 1996 Received: by /C=US/AD=ATTMAIL/PD=EMOTORCO;Mon Apr 15 13:13:10 -0500 1996 Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:13:10 -0500 Transport-Options: /STANDARD/RETURN Original-Encoding-Types: ASCII Disclose-Recipients: yes P2-Originator: mhs!emerson/G=David/S=Sandel/DD.ALISA=SANDELD (Sandel, David) To: questions@freebsd.org (o=attmail/dd.id=) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi There --- I have everything setup to install from a DOS partition on a PC. I am running W95 and have 1gig for windows and 1 gig for FreeBSD. I have the dos partition mounted and the Freebsd has autodefault partitions. OK ... no problemo ... so far ... anyway ... I do a novice installation, average X user, and then start up the install. It runs for a while .... mounts the dos drive and starts copying files .... gets into the stand/ls copy and then gets an error gunzip: stdin : invalid compressed data-format violated /stand/cpio: premature end of file DEBUG : dummy[default] close called for sd0s1 with fd of 6. DEBUG : switching back to VTY1 then .... failed to load root distribution ..... what should I do from here ??? Dave Sandel Emerson Motor 8100 W. Florissant St. Louis, MO. 63136 314-553-2772