From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 16 17:26:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA20855 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 17:26:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA20850 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 17:26:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA07264; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 17:19:06 -0700 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 17:19:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: /G=David/S=Sandel/DD.ALISA=SANDELD@mhs-emerson.attmail.com cc: "o=attmail/dd.id=" Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Wacky email, hope this gets back to you... On Mon, 15 Apr 1996 /G=David/S=Sandel/DD.ALISA=SANDELD@mhs-emerson.attmail.com wrote: > I have everything setup to install from a DOS partition on a PC. > I am running W95 and have 1gig for windows and 1 gig for FreeBSD. > > I have the dos partition mounted and the Freebsd has autodefault > partitions. OK ... no problemo ... so far ... > > anyway ... I do a novice installation, average X user, and then start > up the install. It runs for a while .... mounts the dos drive and > starts > copying files .... gets into the stand/ls copy and then gets an error > > > gunzip: stdin : invalid compressed data-format violated > /stand/cpio: premature end of file > DEBUG : dummy[default] close called for sd0s1 with fd of 6. > DEBUG : switching back to VTY1 What install media? You may have a corrupted file. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major