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Subject: Re: Installation Problem!
To: brmalon2@vt.edu (Brian Maloney)
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 95 19:53:20 METDST
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> I am trying to install 2.0.5 RELEASE on my computer, to my second 
> HDD from my first.  When the installation program tries to copy the
> ROOT image, it says it was unable to copy it.  If I ALT-F2 to the other
> screen, it has "decompression dots" and below that it says: 
> gunzip: stdin: Invalid compression character, or something along 
> those lines.  I have tried getting a replacement ROOT.FLP from 
> ftp.cdrom.com, but this does not seem to fix the problem..  Any sugguestions?
>     Brian Maloney          Computer Science Major at:
> ** Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University**
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Is that the genuine 2.0.5R, or the one distributed to CS students at
Virginia Tech?

The latter has faulty installation floppies, according to the folks
who made them.  New ones will be distributed soon.  

/Alby

> "Real Programmers don't sleep, their systems just go temporarily offline."
> -The 5th Wave