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Date:      Wed, 15 May 1996 10:41:24 -0700
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        rebel@icanect.net (Cybite)
Cc:        support@cdrom.com, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Failed install of FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <199605151741.KAA15046@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 May 1996 18:25:29 EDT." <199605142224.SAA17329@foo.icanect.net> 

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> I have  recieved this message on my last three attempts at installing
> FreeBSD from a dos partion.
> 
> gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data -- format violated
> /stand/cpio : premature end of file
> DEBUG: Dummy [default] close called for wd0s1 with fd of 6
> DEBUG: Switching back to VTY1
> 

One of the bin files is corrupted.  Make sure they're all the same size and 
re-pull any that aren't.  (The last one will be the exception)

> PS: It will not recoginze my IDE cdrom.

Are you using ATAPI.FLP for your boot floppy image instead of boot.flp?



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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