Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 09:12:59 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: ts@rio.muc.de (Thomas Schreiber) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Mysterious "invalid compressed data"-error Message-ID: <199508082342.JAA26720@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <v01510100ac4985922ed3@rio> from "Thomas Schreiber" at Aug 5, 95 10:44:20 pm
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Thomas Schreiber stands accused of saying: > > My effort to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 by the installation program > from Walnut Creek CD failed due to errors like this: > > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated Last time I saw this, the conclusion was hardware/driver problems. Which CD drive are you using? (Is it a Goldstar mitsumi/creative or similar?) > Now I tried to install packages from the CD using pkg_manage > and pkg_add and suddenly this invalid compressed data error > occurs again. gunzip'ping and untar'ing the files by hand > works - no corrupted files! You can mount the CD as a filesystem and copy things off it OK, or are you copying them off under DOS? > Thomas -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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