From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 10:46:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.quintiles.com (ns2.quintiles.com [205.139.234.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 357A914F80 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:46:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from RWinters@QKan.Quintiles.com) Received: (qmail 4153 invoked from network); 18 Oct 1999 17:46:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO qrtplc01.qrtp.quintiles.com) (10.1.54.11) by 10.1.131.20 with SMTP; 18 Oct 1999 17:46:16 -0000 Received: by qrtplc01.qrtp.quintiles.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.5 (863.2 5-20-1999)) id 8525680E.0060B93A ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:36:28 -0400 X-Lotus-FromDomain: QUINTILES From: RWinters@QKan.Quintiles.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <8525680E.0060B727.00@qrtplc01.qrtp.quintiles.com> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 12:44:22 -0500 Subject: Problems installing 3.3 Release over DOS partition Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please help a complete newbie.... I'm trying to install the 3.3 release over a DOS partition and I'm having some trouble. The trouble is that I'm getting a "Makedev returned non-zero status" error message and installation quits. When I did an alt-F2, I found quite a few "chown not found" error messages and "abort trap" error messages. I decided to do the whole installation again, but this time I watched the message log. During the copying bin into / process, I got a lot of error messages about "stand/cpio: bad header", "stand/cpio: bad checksum", and "stand/cpio: ignoring XXXXX bytes of junk". I thought this was probably due to a problem with one of the files in the /bin directory, so I copied (FTP) over everything in the /bin directory to my local hard drive again. The problem repeated itself. I've also tried remaking the floppies with fresh copies of kern.flp and mfsroot.flp, but that didn't work either. Some specifics about my system: It is an AMD K6-2 400 MHz 128 MB PC100 SDRAM 16 MB AGP Voodoo Banshee video Primary IDE Master: 13 GB used by Win98 (FAT32) Primary IDE Slave: 1 GB (this is where I want to install FreeBSD) Secondary IDE Master: 405 MB used as backup (FAT16) Secondary IDE Slave: CD-ROM drive Two parallel ports Mouse on COM1 Modem on COM2 I originally had Red Hat Linux 6 install on half of the 1 GB drive and I tried to install FreeBSD on the other half. I thought that might be causing the problem, so I tried deleting Linux and using the entire drive for FreeBSD, but that did not fix the problem. What I'm thinking now is that bin.inf is somehow screwed up (perhaps downloaded as binary when it should be ASCII or vice versa). Any ideas? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message