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Date: Fri,  4 Jan 2008 09:34:21 +0000
From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Juan_M._M=E9ndez?=" <vejeta@gmail.com>
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Subject: [9fans] Re: Bootsetup will not create floppy
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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.