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To: "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@zombie.ncsc.mil>
cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Problem installing from 2.2-960612-SNAP 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 30 Jun 1996 15:52:34 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 15:42:25 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Nothing, I think.  FreeBSD doesn't like your DOS partition and probably
won't until Robert finishes his DOS filesystem rewrite/fix cycle. :-(

I don't know why this happens to some DOS users and not others
(fragment size?  partition size?  geometry?  sunspot activity?) but
it, unfortunately, does.

					Jordan

> Greetings,
> 
> I'm trying to do a new installation from a DOS partition (minimal
> option). Everything goes fine until I try to extract "bin", then
> I get the following errors:
> 
> 	/stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error
> 	/stand/cpio: warning: skipped 5427 bytes of junk
> 	/stand/cpio: cannot remove current: is a directory
> 	/stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum eror
> 	gunzip: stdio: invalid compress data--format violated.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> -SR