From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 4 15:06:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA22231 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 15:06:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from bellind.com ([206.101.34.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA22224 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 15:06:48 -0800 (PST) From: RGireyev@Bellind.com Received: from cdcexchange.bellind.com ([170.1.130.2]) by firewall.bellind.com with SMTP id <3663-2>; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 15:03:55 -0800 Received: by cdcexchange.bellind.com with Microsoft Exchange (IMC 4.0.837.3) id <01BC28AE.395B0C20@cdcexchange.bellind.com>; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 15:10:41 -0800 Message-ID: To: Cc: , Subject: RE: 2.2 Gamma Install Problem Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 15:10:39 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.837.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk A completely worthless $0.02 but a similar thing happened to me once when I downloaded a file, off the Internet, and the last few bits didn't make it accross. Is the size of the original file, on the FTP server, the same as the size of the local .gz file? >---------- >From: Jordan K. Hubbard[SMTP:jkh@time.cdrom.com] >Sent: Monday, March 03, 1997 11:09 PM >To: Typh0on@concentric.net >Cc: Doug White; hackers@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: 2.2 Gamma Install Problem > >> gunzip: stdin: invalid comp data--format violated >> /stand/cpio/: premature end of file >> Debug: switching back to VTY1 >> >> Any Clues ? > >Looks like the DOS I/O routines failed to read the data correctly off >of this partition. Interesting! How large is this DOS partition >you're reading from and what is the cylinder geometry of the disk it's >on? > > Jordan >