From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 9 10:20:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA25760 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 May 1996 10:20:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emout07.mail.aol.com (emout07.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA25755 for ; Thu, 9 May 1996 10:20:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Amooooo@aol.com Received: by emout07.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA26018 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 9 May 1996 13:20:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 13:20:13 -0400 Message-ID: <960509132012_290563366@emout07.mail.aol.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FBSD Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Im getting the following error msg as freebsd is getting installed. "Failed to load the root distribution. Please correct this problem and try again." The debug screen msg: gunzip: stdini: invalid compressed data--- crc error. /stand/ cpio: premature end of file Debug: Dummy [default] close called for cd0a with Fd of 6. I have a 340 mg ide hard drive with P-75mhz intel system and scsi 2x cd rom. Im using the cd rom as my installation media. Thanks Adam p.s is there anyone in LA that would like to help?