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Re: Slackware install - Corrupted input

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From: Tony Cook
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 00:00

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Mark Harvey (harveym@zip.com.au) wrote:
: I've just downloaded boot/root slackware disks tring to install new
: version and am comming across the following message.

: Insert ramdisk floppy & press <return>    after booting the bare boot disk.
: if I insert the root (color) disk I get the following error messages.
: Corrupted input
: RAMDISK: gzip header not found - Continuing with converentional load.
: <LOTS OF NORMAL STUFF>
: Kernel panic VFS Unable to mount root fs on 21:00

I had a similar problem, which I thought was due to a mismatch
between the kernel/ramdisk loader and the root disk, but I haven't
had a chance to follow it up yet.

-- 
        Tony Cook - tony@online.tmx.com.au
                    100237.3425@compuserve.com

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