Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:29:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: David Goddard <d.m.goddard@ic.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Checksum problems installing 2.1.5R Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961108112620.16871E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9611081147.AA26358@mism.ad.ic.ac.uk>
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On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, David Goddard wrote: > >> Direct FTP install from ftp.cdrom.com produced similar messages. > >FTP install does? Wierd. It's like the disk throws a fit at that point. > > Yes, wierd - common sense (and the archive) would tell me to check my file > transfer yet again, even though I'm certain its OK, but I suspect that I > have another problem, espescially considering that the FTP install falls > over (and that *must* be doing the FTP properly, right? ;-). My first > attempt at this installation was using the setup FTP install, putting on > most of the binary distribution, all of which loaded fine except the bin and > the manpages. Have you tried deleting and recreating the FreeBSD partition you're installing into? Sometimes old failed installs clash and cause all manner of wacky problems. In fact you should never install over a failed install. > There is something dodgy about my setup. > > Apart from re-partitioning my drives and plugging in a wee bit more RAM, > I've not changed my setup since I had 2.1.0 installed. HD corruption? > Other hardware fault? I would be more inclined toward a disk problem. > I had a few glitches when I originally installed 2.1.0 (including, I think, > checksum errors), but they were all down to problems trying to install the > root partition on my second HD and went away when I found the right > configuration. Could it be anything to do with active/bootable partitions? > Am I clutching at straws? No, not particularly. > Only glitch I had previously had with 2.1.5R was getting boot.flp to work - > it wouldn't boot. Dodgy floppy I think, but after a few attempts it > worked. Is it worth doing a new boot.flp on a fresh floppy just in case? > Still clutching at straws? I don't think so, if it boots and runs properly. > Incidentally, given the number of failed installs I have, it's a real pain > that the boot floppy doesn't save my configuration options :-( I can understand. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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