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Article #59040Re: Slackware install - Corrupted input
From: Jason Waring
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 11 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 > This happened to me when I recently upgraded to slackware 3.0. The problem was that I unzipped the root image myself and then wrote it to the disc. Once I wrote the image to disc in the zipped form the problem went away. Best of luck, Jason. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jason R. Waring E-mail: waring@ml.csiro.au CSIRO Division of Oceanography Telephone: (002) 32 5459 GPO Box 1538, Hobart Fax: (002) 32 5000
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