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Date:      Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:57:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Nathan Denny <SCHCATS@siu.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Floppy installation.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960718215653.265C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <31EEB5B6.3DB4@siu.edu>

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On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Nathan Denny wrote:

> I'm installing, via floppy, to a 386 with 2 IDE disks.
> I run the installation program which works just peachy ...up until the 
> disk of death.  When it gets to bin.cl it crashes the installation.
> I've ftp'ed in BINARY from two different sources.  I've used different
> floppies.  Each time the reported error on VTY-1 is WRITTEN -1 of 512 bytes.
> The debug, VTY-2, says invalid gunzip cpio or something like that.
> I've also tried both version 2.1.0 and 2.1.5  Please HELP!  My sanity is at
> stake.

Are you sure the disk you're using is good?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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