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From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-RELEASE on ftp.freebsd.org no good ?
Date: 17 Mar 1997 15:35:42 GMT
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Tom Lislegaard <tl@cmr.no> wrote in <332D545F.3F24@cmr.no>...
> Installation of 2.2 bin fails similar to this
> 
>  r-xr-xr-x  3/7   8192 Mar 16 08:37 1997 usr/bin/lsvfs
>  r-xr-xr-x  3/7  20480 Mar 16 08:37 1997 usr/bin/m4
>  r-xr-xr-x  3/7  69632 Mar 16 08:37 1997 usr/bin/mail
>  stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
>  tar: read error: unexpected EOF
> 
> The bad file is apparently bin.bg. I've downloaded it from
> ftp.freebsd.org
> several times without any change.

I installed the whole thing last night without
problems. I chose the ftp installation method from
ftp.freebsd.org.

Paddy