From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 21:10:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA03086 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 21:10:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA03079 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 21:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA02933; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 21:10:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 21:10:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Vladimir Loiterstein cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with instalation from DOS partition In-Reply-To: <32593258.caf@mail.caf.estnet.ee> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Vladimir Loiterstein wrote: > > I have 5x86/133 computer with 8 MB RAM, 1.2 GB WD E-IDE hard disk, > NEC IDE CDROM and sound card Gravis Ultrasound with 1 MB RAM. > > > When I try Install FreeBSD from my DOS partition I got next message in DEBUG > mode "commpressed data -- format violated". At what stage in the install? This generally means that either there was a problem reading the disk or the archive is bad. Try re-downloading the file which tar tripped on. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major