From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 07:15:50 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA01705 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 07:15:50 -0800 Received: from Basix.COM (BASIX.COM [192.245.12.56]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA01697 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 07:15:44 -0800 From: carf@Data.Basix.COM Received: by Data.Basix.COM (MX V3.3 VAX) id 32406; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 08:15:03 -0700 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 08:14:57 -0700 To: QUESTIONS@freefall.cdrom.com Message-ID: <0098D635.53705060.32406@Data.Basix.COM> Subject: installation problems for 2.0 and SNAPs Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have noticed several messages from people attempting to install the release 2.0 or more recent SNAPs in which they are having problems with "checksum errors." I sent a similar message myself but then had problems with my email and did not see if there was a response. I found that if you are installing from a DOS partition on your hard disk that the install script wants your distribution directories to be in a subdirectory. For example, I created a directory on my c: drive named unix. The directory tree then was a follows: c:/--->unix---->bin(dist) | |->dict | and so forth. The complete release I was installing (SNAP-950210) then installed without any problems. I merely told it to look for the files in "unix" when the install script asked where the files were. I realize this is just a workaround, but I only downloaded the install script today and don't know when I'll get around to making the necessary adjustments. Of course anyone who wants to do some simple shell script programming could look at instdist.sh and fix it if you have time before I get around to it. I'll probably print it out and look at it tonight or tomorrow night. Regards, Marshall Wells (Mush man) ----- The Rehabilitation Accreditation Commission Please address all email to: CARF@Data.Basix.COM Include the name of the individual to whom your mail is to be forwarded as the subject line of your message.