Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 15:34:28 -0500 From: Richard Linane <Typh0on@concentric.net> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2 Gamma Install Problem Message-ID: <331C8754.543D@pop3.concentric.net> References: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970303122300.20520B-100000@localhost> <331B43BB.30AB@pop3.concentric.net> <Mutt.19970303234553.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <331B8448.67EE@pop3.concentric.net>
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Richard Linane wrote: > > J Wunsch wrote: > > > > As Richard Linane wrote: > > > > > When I press ALT-F2 this is displayed: > > > > > > gunzip: stdin: invalid comp data--format violated > > > /stand/cpio/: premature end of file > > > Debug: switching back to VTY1 > > > > Anything before this? > > > > -- > > cheers, J"org > > > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > Yes but this looks like an uncompress though > /stand/cpio: usr/bin/nvi linked to usr/bin/ex > usr/bin/ex > /stand/cpio: usr/bin/nvi linked to usr/bin/view > usr/bin/view > usr/bin/vis > usr/bin/w > /stand/cpio: usr/bin/w linked to usr/bin/uptime > usr/bin/uptime > usr/bin/wall > usr/bin/wc > usr/bin/what > usr/bin/whereis > usr/bin/which > usr/bin/who > usr/bin/whois > usr/bin/window > usr/bin/write > usr/bin/xargs > > gunzip: stdin: invalid comp data--format violated > /stand/cpio/: premature end of file > Debug: switching back to VTY1 > > >Thats exactly what had been displayed< You had asked: How big is the Dos Partitian I installing from.. It is 2.146 GIG Bytes And what is the Geometry of the Drive I'm installing to.. The Geometry is >> 2446 cyls 16 heads 63 S/T 512 B/s After the failed installation this I presses ALT-F2 ( DEBUG Mode) and found it had stopped at the same place listed above. I had it try a second retrieve..it failed and reported this.. Unable to Extract the following distributions ..bin 100%.. They were not available on the installation media you've chosen. I then pressed ALT-F2 again ( DEBUG Mode) and this was printed on screen. Debug: Parse config: Invalid caracter 'p' at line 0Debug Switching back to VTY1 I think I'm going to disconnect my source drive and start the whole proccess over again as a single drive installation from floppies... ...at least the 'bin' distribution any way.
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