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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!in2.uu.net!winternet.com!jkodadek From: jkodadek@winternet.com (J. Kodadek) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Installation woes.. Date: 27 Aug 1995 15:58:02 GMT Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc Lines: 30 Message-ID: <41q4ma$riq@blackice.winternet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: klondike.winternet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] This is all beginning to get extrememly frustrating. I have the 2.0.5R cd-rom, and copied what I want to install the c:\freebsd etc, the floppies too. I can get through the whole installation menu fine, but when it starts to install everything, it stops after a few seconds with this error: Failed to load the ROOT distribution. Please correct this problem and try again. When I check the debug screen, it has the following three things. mountmsdosfs(): root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in length. gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated. /stand/cpio premature end of file I am positive I have the root disks in the proper place on my hard drive, as I have them in C:\, \freebsd\floppies\, \freebsd, and \floppies. :) It seems to me it is having some sort of problem mounting the dos partition, but I sure am stumped as how to fix this (I have only installed linux before, so be gentle.) jess kodadek jkodadek@winternet.com