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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: unsupported compression format Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:23:45 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 11 Message-ID: <315190A1.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <4in3d5$elg@news.esslink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: andy@esslink.com andy@esslink.com wrote: > using the computer with the CDROM drive, I made the boot.flp > floppie using makeflp.bat. I then used that floppie to boot > my computer. It appears to start booting, then it says > 'uncompressing kernel' then it says 'invalid compressed > format, system halted'. What should I do? I suspect that you simply have a bad floppy. Try with a new one. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project