From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 22 10:12:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA19280 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:12:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beauty.nacamar.de (alpha@beauty.nacamar.de [194.112.16.36]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA19267 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:12:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from alpha@localhost) by beauty.nacamar.de (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA03895; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 19:13:26 +0200 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 19:13:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Karsten Rohrbach [alpha / Keen like Frogs]" X-Sender: alpha@beauty.nacamar.de To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: HELP! FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE Installation problem/bug? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hi i get the following error when FreeBSD tries to install the files on the root image (it says "extracting root floppy): ---8<---VT2 output--- stand/ee [and the other cpio garbage] gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data - format violated /stand/cpio: premature end of file DEBUG: Dummy [default] close called for sd0s1 with fd of 9 --->8--- it does NOT say stand/root_squash which appears to be also in the root image (i looked into the image with with linux gunzip and cpio)... my hardware configuration is as follows: ASUS VLB Motherboard w/ i486DX2-66 and 16MB RAM miro Crystal 20SV VGA card w/ 2MB IBM 1Serial/1Parallel card Teles.S0 16.0 ISDN card Gravis Ultrasound w/ 1MB and 16bit option Adaptec AHA2842VL, BIOS version 2.0 ID0: IBM DPES1080 SCSI HD (this is /dev/sd0 with Windows95 filesystem and the Freebsd installation tree in C:\FREEBSD on it) ID1: IBM DORS2160 SCSI HD (there's linux in the first two partitions and FreeBSD is supposed to be installed to the third partition) ID2: Quantum PDS 1225 SCSI HD (another DOS vfat volume) ID3: Quantum Lightning 540 SCSI HD (old Linux and a DOS vfat pratition on it) ID5: Iomega ZIP 100MB, no medium in drive while installation ID6: Toshiba XM3401TA CD-ROM, no medium in drive btw: When the installation exits, the adaptec does not initialize after rebooting. i get a hard error from my award bios to insert a disk into the floppy drive. i have to hard reset, then it works again. i checked for invalid drive geometry in fdsik, but this does not seem to be the problem. am i doing something wrong? thanks in advance for your help! -Karsten -- ___________ - --\__ _/ _/_-- - Karsten W. [ alpha ] Rohrbach - --/ \_-- - Keen like Frogs Musician __/\_____\_____/[1996] sanDman Studio Frankfurt, Germany \ Oo /\__ \_____ .oOo. Audio Productions /_\ _\ / / \_ fon: ++49-6103-939718 (private) \/___\___________/ fon: ++49-6103-9901-20 (work) .oOo. \_ _________/-- - .oOo. fax: ++49-6103-9901-18 - --/ ___\-- - ]======\_____\==[.KeeN.LiKe.Fr0Gs.]====================================[