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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!realtime.net!bga.com!usenet From: dhbrown@bga.com (Dave Brown) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installation Hell!!! Help!!! Date: 10 Dec 1995 21:05:45 GMT Organization: DBAssociates Lines: 40 Message-ID: <4afi3a$5iu@giga.bga.com> References: <4aba5a$aep@news.cyberspy.com> <4ab9ka$m7q@agate.berkeley.edu> <qtfn39285xw.fsf@plethora.cs.wustl.edu> Reply-To: dhbrown@dhbrown NNTP-Posting-Host: maria-7h.ip.realtime.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.11 In article <qtfn39285xw.fsf@plethora.cs.wustl.edu>, jxh@plethora.cs.wustl.edu says... > >"jkh" == Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> writes: >In article <4ab9ka$m7q@agate.berkeley.edu> jkh@violet.berkeley.edu >(Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: > :jkh: In article <4aba5a$aep@news.cyberspy.com>, David Rairigh ::: 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 I seem to be having the same kind of problem. Everything loads just fine until I get to the bin.ca diskette. I get the message "write failure on transfer (wrote -1 bytes of 10240 bytes). I've downloaded the bin.c* files from several different ftp sites including FreeBSD and Walnut Creek, plus several mirror sites. I always get the same problem. I firmly believe that I am getting a corrupted distribution, but I'm beginning to believe that the corruption occurred when the distribution occurred--why is nothing else corrupted, only the bin.c* diskette? I'm about to throw in the towel on FreeBSD and go back to Linux where stuff works... James, how do you get "slow net connection"? Why would this only be necessary for FreeBSD? -- Dave Brown Austin, TX