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Date:      Tue, 8 Oct 1996 21:10:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Vladimir Loiterstein <vladimir@caf.estnet.ee>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with instalation from DOS partition
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961008210945.2709W-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <32593258.caf@mail.caf.estnet.ee>

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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




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