From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 20 2:35:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03E041AADB for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 02:35:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.040 #1) id 11ds8P-0005yg-00; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:34:17 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: RWinters@QKan.Quintiles.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems installing 3.3 Release over DOS partition In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:34:11 EST." <8525680E.004F4DF1.00@qrtplc01.qrtp.quintiles.com> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:34:17 +0200 Message-ID: <22981.940412057@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:34:11 EST, RWinters@QKan.Quintiles.com wrote: > When I did an alt-F2, I found quite a few "chown not found" error > messages These are due to a bug in MAKEDEV, which assumes that chwon will be present, even though it's not critical. > 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". How do you get the files into your /bin directory? You say you FTP the files? Are you sure that you're using binary mode for each transfer, and are you watching closely to make sure that all of the transfers complete successfully? Caio, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message