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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:34:53 -0700
From: Thierry Samama <Thierry.Samama@ansf.alcatel.fr>
Organization: Alcatel TITN Answare, France
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Hi!

I am trying to install FreeBSD on a Gateway PC with 1.6 Gb of disk space.

I chose to create a 500 Mb partition for FreeBSD (using FIPS), use the FreeBSD-supplied 
boot manager, allocate slices automatically, and install from the DOS
partition.

After a few seconds, the installation stops with a "problem in root.flp" on vty1.
On vty2, the last file successfully de-cpio'ed is stand/ls, and right underneath
we have:

"gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data -- format violated
/stand/cpio: premature end of file"

I compared floppies/root.flp on the CD and on the DOS partition, and
they're the same.

Any ideas ?


Thank you for your help,

Thierry.