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From: jxh@plethora.cs.wustl.edu (James Hu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installation Hell!!! Help!!!
Date: 09 Dec 1995 12:09:47 -0600
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>>>>> "jkh" == Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> writes:
In article <4ab9ka$m7q@agate.berkeley.edu> jkh@violet.berkeley.edu
(Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: 


jkh> In article <4aba5a$aep@news.cyberspy.com>, David Rairigh
jkh> <graver@cyberspy.com> wrote:
>> I am having the following installation problem.  While extracting
>> bins, the system hangs on "bin.ch" with the message: Invalid
>> checksum Writing -1 bytes of 10140

jkh> It's like I told you in email - you have a corrupt distribution
jkh> somehow.  I don't know how it got corrupted in between here and
jkh> there, but many many people have installed from the distribution
jkh> on ftp.freebsd.org and a number of its mirrors without incident.
jkh> [...]

You may also want to try changing the options for a slow net
connection.  This might get you past the problem.

-- James