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Date:      Wed, 9 Aug 1995 09:12:59 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        ts@rio.muc.de (Thomas Schreiber)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Mysterious "invalid compressed data"-error
Message-ID:  <199508082342.JAA26720@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <v01510100ac4985922ed3@rio> from "Thomas Schreiber" at Aug 5, 95 10:44:20 pm

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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?)

> 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?

> Thomas

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