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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
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 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


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Dan Ziegler                                              
EMail: yu120560@yorku.ca                                 
Web: http://www.finearts.yorku.ca/dziegler/3rdmnsn.htm
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