From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 1 09:50:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA09470 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 09:50:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mother.cdrom.com (mother.cdrom.com [204.216.28.172]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA09464 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 09:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (support@localhost) by mother.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA26597 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 09:50:11 -0700 (PDT) Delivery-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 08:25:33 -0700 X-Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.28.34]) by mother.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA03473 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 08:25:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: from wc.cdrom.com (wc.cdrom.com [204.216.28.155]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id IAA10974 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 08:25:32 -0700 X-Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.28.34]) by wc.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA19800 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 08:25:08 -0700 X-Received: from aiicsx01.eln.gov.br ([200.18.16.66]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id IAA10968 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 08:25:06 -0700 X-Received: from 200.18.16.65 ([200.18.16.82]) by aiicsx01.eln.gov.br (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA01488 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:24:07 -0300 Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:24:07 -0300 Message-Id: <199606281524.MAA01488@aiicsx01.eln.gov.br> X-Sender: fazra@eln.gov.br X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: support@cdrom.com From: fazra@eln.gov.br (Flavio Azra Barrenechea) Subject: FreeBSD Installation ReSent-Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 09:50:02 -0700 (PDT) ReSent-From: Jamil Weatherbee ReSent-To: questions@freebsd.org ReSent-Message-ID: Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dear Sirs while undertaking a minimal installation from a DOS partition it tells me that it has failed to load the ROOT distribution "Please correct this problem and try again". on VTY2 I see stand/cp stand/cksum stand/chmod stand/ee stand/df stand/cat stand/ls gunzip: stdio: invalid compressed data -- format violated /stand/cpio: premature end of file DEBUG: Dummy [default] close called for Wd0S1 with fd of 6 when I try again with the bin from disk 2 the only difference is that instead of "format violated" I get "crc error" could it be that the disks have a recording error ? sincerely Antony Stevens ps please reply c/o fazra@eln.gov.br ================================================ Centrais Eletricas do Norte do Brasil S/A Flavio Azra Barrenechea ================================================