From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 4 11:27:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA17150 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 11:27:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line12.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.59]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA17145 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 11:27:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA00278; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 11:27:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 11:27:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Rich Bornhofer cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp to dos partition didn't work well. In-Reply-To: <3204B68E.2E90@iosys.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 4 Aug 1996, Rich Bornhofer wrote: > I have recently been having troubles trying to do the FTP install to > my system. I have tried every thing i can think of, and my modem doesn't > seem to want to work under com2 (com3 and com4 work, but com2 just won't > go..) So.. I opted for zipping up half of my C: drive to make room for a > dos partion install, FTPed the bin, doc, info, xfree86 stuff i wanted, > etc.. to my dos drive.. under c:\freebsd\. I am > guessing that i have the files in the right place, as when i start the > actual install, it starts reading files and building the file structure. You should read INSTALL.TXT for the proper setup. It should look like: C:\FREEBSD \bin -> bin.aa, bin.ab, .... \doc -> doc.aa, doc.ab... \manpages -> manpages.aa ... > The problem is, in bin and doc, i get invalid header: checksum error and > then it says (via alt+f2) /stand/cpio: cannot remove current: Is a > directory errors.. The system keeps asking me if i would like to try > again, with the same results. SOunds like you didn't download the images in BINARY mode, or you are attempting to install over a failed install, in which you should delete that slice and try again. I also noticed that the transfer rate > quickly dropped from 200+K/s to 15K/s.. is that from the decompressing > of the .tgz files? (as i would hope). Yes. > Anyway, the question is, if i am > ftping the files from freebsd.org why am i getting checksum errors for > most of the bin dist, and plenty of the doc dist? And more importantly, > how can i get 'clean' coppies? Again, you may have downloaded the archives in ASCII mode. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major