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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Bad cpio floppy? I think not...
Date: 7 Jun 1995 10:29:06 +0200
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Rory Toma <rory@miskatonic> wrote:
>... 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
What are the error messages that make you believe it's a bad floppy?
>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?
Normally, this noise wouldn't confuse the install. It's just a bunch
of null bytes following the zipped cpio archive. As long as gzip
doesn't complain about ``corrupted date'', there's no harm done.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)