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From: rory@miskatonic (Rory Toma)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Bad cpio floppy? I think not...
Date: 04 Jun 1995 18:37:27 GMT
Organization: Synopsys, Inc.
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Message-ID: <RORY.95Jun4113727@miskatonic>
NNTP-Posting-Host: miskatonic.synopsys.com
I'm trying to install freebsd 2.0 on my machine. I've grabbed an updated
2.0 boot image (so as to recognize my scsi controller) and can do fine
until it tries to gunzip the cpio image. It appears to finish, beats on
the disk, and then complains about a bad floppy. I can read and extract these
floppies on another machine (a linux box) and the only strange thing is that
gunzip complains about "ignoring traling garbage". Could this benign noise
be confusing the install? If so, where can I get a clean cpio image that
is the size of the entire floppy?
Thanks
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Rory Toma - NCS DE, ATG DS Rep rory@synopsys.com
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