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Date:      Fri, 5 Apr 1996 22:33:37 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        mark naghsh <naghsh37@matrix.newpaltz.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960405223133.810B-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199604060005.TAA11672@matrix.newpaltz.edu>

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On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, mark naghsh wrote:

> > >   What else um.../36M,  /usr36M  /var20M /swap 2*mem(16M) I do have limited
> > > hard drive space. Maybe that is it? Any help would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Although I'm not immediately familiar with what the exact disk size 
> > requirements are, but my guess is you're running out of space on /usr.  
> > Do you have the exact error message from the ALT-F2 screen?
>  
> Here it is..
> DEBUG: Request for bin/bin.bx from dos
>        bin/csh
>        gunzip:stdin:invalid compressed data--format violated
>        Premature end of /stand/cpio
> 
> This is why I thought it was a corrupt file. Any suggestions?

Hm.  From this it looks like the file isn't copying over cleanly from 
dos.  I don't have a hypothesis at this point, plus DOS installs are not 
my forte.

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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