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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!merlin!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!nwfocus.wa.com!nwestnews!usenet From: Stephen Willey <steve.willey@mccaw.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: 2.0.5R install: problem decompressing kernel Date: 13 Jun 1995 19:21:38 GMT Organization: McCaw Cellular Communications Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3rkog2$4a1@nwestmail.nwest.mccaw.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: oismscorp3.nwest.mccaw.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc hello, I am having problems installing 2.0.5R. I make the boot disk: (download images, rawrite disks) then when I try to boot with boot disk, it starts to boot, goes to decompress the kernel and then comes back and says, Invalid compression format, system halted (or comething) like that. I've tried both the boot.flp image from the floppies and the updated copy in UPDATES from ftp.cdrom.com, both do the same thing. help! machine: compaq: 486/40, 24 meg RAM, 318 disk, blah blah blah. what am I doing wrong? any ideas? thanks, steve willey steve.willey@mccaw.com mccaw cellular communications