From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 21:57:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA28750 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:57:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts10-line8.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.106]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA28743 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00296; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:57:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Nathan Denny cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy installation. In-Reply-To: <31EEB5B6.3DB4@siu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Nathan Denny wrote: > I'm installing, via floppy, to a 386 with 2 IDE disks. > I run the installation program which works just peachy ...up until the > disk of death. When it gets to bin.cl it crashes the installation. > I've ftp'ed in BINARY from two different sources. I've used different > floppies. Each time the reported error on VTY-1 is WRITTEN -1 of 512 bytes. > The debug, VTY-2, says invalid gunzip cpio or something like that. > I've also tried both version 2.1.0 and 2.1.5 Please HELP! My sanity is at > stake. Are you sure the disk you're using is good? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major