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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
>
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