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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!nctuccca.edu.tw!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install problem :( Cant load ROOT image Date: 3 May 1996 16:50:00 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4mddfo$hqu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4m2s55$gvq@snow.btinternet.com> <4m581j$od@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes: >: 'failed to load the root distribution. correct this problem and try again' > >: The debug log says: >: gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated >: /stand/cpio: premature end of file >You've got a dodgy disk somewhere. Your /stand binary seems to be >in bad order. Try re-writing boot.flp onto your boot floppy and re- >installing. He was installing from a second disk, so i think the actual problem will merely be the wrong path to the distribution files. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)