From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 10:39:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA07799 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 May 1996 10:39:46 -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 KAA07794 for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 10:39:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA15046; Wed, 15 May 1996 10:41:24 -0700 Message-Id: <199605151741.KAA15046@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: rebel@icanect.net (Cybite) cc: support@cdrom.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failed install of FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 May 1996 18:25:29 EDT." <199605142224.SAA17329@foo.icanect.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 10:41:24 -0700 From: Doug White Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have recieved this message on my last three attempts at installing > FreeBSD from a dos partion. > > gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data -- format violated > /stand/cpio : premature end of file > DEBUG: Dummy [default] close called for wd0s1 with fd of 6 > DEBUG: Switching back to VTY1 > One of the bin files is corrupted. Make sure they're all the same size and re-pull any that aren't. (The last one will be the exception) > PS: It will not recoginze my IDE cdrom. Are you using ATAPI.FLP for your boot floppy image instead of boot.flp? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major