Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 14:39:17 +0100 From: "Joe Pepin" <jpepin@lucent.com> To: "Mark Ovens" <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, <RWinters@QKan.Quintiles.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Problems installing 3.3 Release over DOS partition Message-ID: <NDBBJMHAKKLLMBFNMKDDOEKHCHAA.jpepin@lucent.com> In-Reply-To: <19991018191237.A322@marder-1>
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I had *EXACTLY* this same problem. I had FTPed the distros (correctly, using binary) over a modem (it took 18 hours) I then placed them on a Linux server and did an FTP install. Evidently, the bin.xx containg chown got corrupted. From your "emergency holographic shell" do an ls of /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, and /usr/sbin you'll probably find a bunch of commands missing. I had to re-download all the bins, (another 5 hours) then it all worked. HTH, Joe Pepin ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Joe Pepin Network Systems Engineer Security Practice Lucent Technologies / Bell Labs Innovations NetCare Professional Services Division http://www.lucent.com/NetCare “The Knowledge Behind the Network” The views/opinions expressed above are not necessarily those of my employer, but they probably should be. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mark Ovens Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 7:13 PM To: RWinters@QKan.Quintiles.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems installing 3.3 Release over DOS partition On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:34:11AM -0500, RWinters@QKan.Quintiles.com wrote: > 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. > This is just a guess but did you FTP the files as binary? Some smart-arse FTP programs will default to ASCII mode and convert all instances of LF with CR-LF which is guaranteed to trash your files. HTH > Some specifics about my system: > It is an AMD K6-2 400 MHz > 128 MB RAM > Primary IDE0: 13 GB used by Win98 (FAT32) > Secondary IDE0: 1 GB (this is where I want to install FreeBSD) > Primary IDE1: 405 MB used as backup (FAT16) > Secondary IDE1: 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. > > Any ideas? > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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