Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 22:19:58 +0200 From: ts@rio.muc.de (Thomas Schreiber) To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mysterious "invalid compressed data"-error Message-ID: <v01510101ac501a647508@rio>
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>Thomas Schreiber stands accused of saying: >> >> My effort to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 by the installation program >> from Walnut Creek CD failed due to errors like this: >> >> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated > >Last time I saw this, the conclusion was hardware/driver problems. Which >CD drive are you using? (Is it a Goldstar mitsumi/creative or similar?) It's a Goldstar SCSI Double Speed drive (GCD-R320B) on an Adaptec 2940. It works without any problems as a mounted device. Errors only appear with pkg-manage and (worse) with the installation program > >> Now I tried to install packages from the CD using pkg_manage >> and pkg_add and suddenly this invalid compressed data error >> occurs again. gunzip'ping and untar'ing the files by hand >> works - no corrupted files! > >You can mount the CD as a filesystem and copy things off it OK, or are >you copying them off under DOS? Mounted as a filesystem. See above. > >> Thomas > >-- >]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ >]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ >]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ >]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ >]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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