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Date:      Wed, 19 Jul 95 10:05:24 EAT
From:      Yen-Wei Liu <ywliu@lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw>
To:        jkh@violet.berkeley.edu
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <199507190220.TAA20430@mail.barrnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199507190010.RAA08290@violet.berkeley.edu>; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jul 18, 95 5:10 pm

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> 2. Booting from BOOT-Floppy: Booting OK. After going through the 
> necessary steps of preparation (creating and labeling disk sclices
> and so on) installation starts but produces lots of "invalid 
> header:checksum error" (cpio) and "invalid compressed data--crc error" 
> (gunzip) messages. (shown on the ALT-F2-Screen, seem to come from cpio 
> and gunzip).
> After finishing of "installation" of the bin-Directory, 
> installation-dialog informs that it could not install and asks for 
> repetition. The same happens for all the other directories.

I was into this situation several times (I installed 2.05R several times
on different machines). My workaround was pressing ALT-F4 to go to
the shell, kill cpio and/or gzip, to make the install program fail and
retry. Usually processed without any problems then.

--
Yen-Wei Liu



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