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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!gt-news!cc.gatech.edu!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!nntp.msstate.edu!night.primate.wisc.edu!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!torn!newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!Dan From: yu120560@yorku.ca (Dan Ziegler) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help installing FreeBSD Date: Mon, 08 Jul 96 16:01:06 GMT Organization: York University, Ontario, Canada Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4rrbdd$3tg@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: curly03.slip.yorku.ca X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 Keyword: Install I'm trying to install FreeBSD...everything was going smoothly 'til it began to actually copy over the files. Here's my error, perhaps you can translate it into something resembling english for me :) "Failed to load ROOT dist" (which seems relatively straightforward) Command line output: "gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data -- format violated /stand /cpio: premature end of file DEBUG: Dummy [default] close called for wd0s1 with fd of 6" <sigh> I tried re-downloading the root.flp image, but got the same error. I'm installing from a DOS partition, and my dos dirs are set up the way the install doc says. What do I need to do/replace?? please reply by email if possible...thanks in advance --------------------------------------------------------- Dan Ziegler EMail: yu120560@yorku.ca Web: http://www.finearts.yorku.ca/dziegler/3rdmnsn.htm ---------------------------------------------------------