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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1750 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:56:21 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sun-barr!olivea!charnel!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!tplinfm From: (Richard Stubbs) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Questions ???? Summary: Questions Message-ID: <1m5372INN1pd@lucy.ee.und.ac.za> Date: 20 Feb 93 11:04:02 GMT References: <1luvho$b4d@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> Sender: Richard Stubbs Reply-To: stubbs@ccen.unp.ac.za Organization: Univ of Natal, Pmb, South Africa Lines: 23 NNTP-Posting-Host: pc099.cc.unp.ac.za I have a few questions for the 386BSD wizards out there.... First of all I have been having some problems with installation of BSD. I Aim to put it on a 486 with 16Mb of memory an a 600Mb drive but first I wanted to test it out on a PC that I have lying around which happens to be a 386SX with 4Mb abd a 68Mb Maxtor MFM drive. Now I have made the Hard disk bootable and have loaded the entire bin01 set onto it. Now the tricky part comes when I run the extract command, No matter what I do bin01.03 is allways corrupt. i have Ftp it from numerous sources and still it wont work. I understand the bin01 files are in cpio format, is it not possible to cat all the files together and then cpio the result. The problem is when I tried to cpio the 13Mb file it comes up with "Bad Magic Number, not a cpio file" It seems that I might not have the correct format of the cpio arguments. Could someone help me with this most puzzling problem. Second I read in the comp.os.linux.FAQ that the FTP throughput in 386BSD is only about 5Kb/Sec, is this true? Richard Stubbs | Planet Earth is blue and stubbs@ccen.unp.ac.za | there is nothing I can do !