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Re: Slackware install - Corrupted input

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From: Mark Harvey
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 00:00

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Tony Cook (tony@online.tmx.com.au) wrote:
: Mark Harvey (harveym@zip.com.au) wrote:
: : if I insert the root (color) disk I get the following error messages.
: : Corrupted input
: : RAMDISK: gzip header not found - Continuing with converentional load.
: 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

Thanks to the people who e-mailed me with the fix.
The problem was that I "gzip -d" the root disk first & then "dd" the image to
a blank floppy.
DON'T DO THIS !!! Just 'cp color.gz /dev/fd0H1440' & everything works fine.

Mark Harvey
harveym@zip.com.au

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From: harveym@zip.com.au (Mark Harvey)
Subject: Re: Slackware install - Corrupted input
Date: 1996/04/11
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