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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Q: Prob. Install FreeBSD Date: 26 Feb 1996 02:59:23 GMT Organization: PRZ/TU-Berlin Lines: 58 Message-ID: <4gr7mb$85j@sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de> References: <3130FE73.1666@skypoint.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.prz.tu-berlin.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0] Troy Barlow (tbarlow@skypoint.com) wrote: > I have a 133mhz Pentium based PC with 32 megs ram, AHA2940 PCI SCSI > controller, 2 GIG HD, and a Stealth 64 3200 video card. > > I grabbed the latest release BASE FreeBSD system, and have a problem. > The bootdisk works fine, detects all hardware correctly. But after I > select all the install options, and select NOVICE install, this is > what happens: > > It makes all dirs > It mounts drives > The starts copying the files from my HD C:\FreeBSD dirs > Part of the way through the copy it aborts saying a file was corrupt. > This file is "cpio" I think. > > I have no idea what BIN\ file could be corrupt, so I tried replacing > all of them without success. > > Does anyone know what I can do, or what I should look for? > > Thanks in advance, > Troy > > PS: I dont remember the exact message it gives about the file, but if > I switch over with F2, I can see it stopped at "cpio". I think 1 or 2 > files before that was "ls". I wish it would tell you what bin.xx file > it was :-) Since I downloaded them twice, if it's corrupt, its probably > corrupt on the FreeBSD ftp site. I had a similar expierence. In my case I got indeed corrupted files. I downloaded them from a mirror site (ftp2.de.freebsd.org AFAIK) and had all the trouble with "checksum errors" during extract, ld.so was missing and when I escaped to a shell, almost any command aborted with the message "abort". I didn't know how to reproduce the checksums given in the CHECKSUMS files without FreeBSD installed anywhere. But then I just downloaded the files from another mirror site (ftp5.de.freebsd.org) and compared the old and the new files using the simple GNU checksum tool "sum" (on another unix machine). In my case it turned out that even boot.flp, root.flp, bin.bv and some other files were corrupted. When I replaced them and tried it again the installation went almost flawlessly (hmm, some other trouble but this would be off-topic). But I don't know whether the files were corrupted on the mirror site, during my download or during my copying... a little bit strange, never had such problems. BTW, I downloaded always using bin mode - just if you wonder... :-) Thomas -- Thomas Wolfram email: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de PRZ/EANTC, Technical University of Berlin voice: +49 30 314 27606 http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf fax: +49 30 314 25986 _____________________________________________________________________________ _____S__I__C____T__R__A__N__S__I__T____G__L__O__R__I__A____M__U__N__D__I_____