From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 13 06:12:22 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA22202 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 06:12:22 -0700 Received: from colin.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.174.4.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA22194 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 06:12:14 -0700 Received: from rio by colin.muc.de with UUCP id <41353-3>; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 15:11:47 +0200 Received: from rio by rio.muc.de with UUPC; Sun, 13 Aug 95 14:51:51 +0200 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 22:19:58 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org From: ts@rio.muc.de (Thomas Schreiber) Subject: Re: Mysterious "invalid compressed data"-error Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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 [[