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From: "Juan M. Méndez" <vejeta@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Re: Bootsetup will not create floppy
Date: Fri,  4 Jan 2008 09:34:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <665da087-1459-41f4-8040-f3033832209a@21g2000hsj.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071211122105.GA2145@localhost.locahost.net>

On Dec 11 2007, 4:23 pm, j...@utopian.net (Joshua Wood) wrote:

> > Downloaded plan9.flp.gz, on attempting to decompress got the
> > following error:
> > gunzip: data stream error
> > gunzip: plan9.flp.gz: uncompress failed
>
> Plan9.flp.gz is an installer image -- basically what you already have
> on the bootable CD. I don't think it's appropriate for what you're
> trying to do, and I didn't recommend it. That said, while gnu gzip
> may not open it, plan9 gzip(1) will (from your live cd); windows 7zip
> will too, by my test. So I don't believe it's corrupt on the server.

In Debian GNU/Linux I found the package p7zip-full with '7za' that
also
can decompress the floppy image.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-04  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-09 13:11 [9fans] " Joshua Wood
2007-12-11 12:21 ` Alasdair Reed
2007-12-11 15:21   ` Joshua Wood
2008-01-04  9:34   ` Juan M. Méndez [this message]

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