Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 15:13:36 -0700 From: "K.C. Komosky" <kc@mb.sympatico.ca> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems in installing from DOS partition Message-ID: <3245BA10.40EB@mb.sympatico.ca> References: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960920002632.1049I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Thanks for your reply.
Doug White wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, K.C. Komosky wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.5 on my home PC. Since my CD-ROM is an
> > Atapi-IDE type, I decided against ordering the CD and started downloading
> > from the ftp.freebsd.org site onto my DOS 6.22 partition. I intend FreeBSD
> > to be in a second partition right after the initial DOS one.
> >
> > Everything seems to go along fine, but I get an error message:
> >
> > Unable to transfer the bin distribution from wd0s1
>
> Take a look on the ALT-F2 screen and see if you can pick out the exact
> error. That would be most helpful.
>
> Oh, and try deleting the FreeBSD slice and trying again from scratch.
> Well, I had been deleting the FreeBSD slice when I got this message.
Anyways, the Alt-F2 screen went something like this:
.
bin
bin/cat
bin/chmod
/stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error
gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
DEBUG: Switching back to VTY1
/stand/cpio premature end of file
Also, on a hunch I removed the files checksum.md5 and install.sh from my
\freebsd\bin directory. While I got the same initial error message ("Unable to
transfer the bin distribution from wd0s1"), the debug screen showed that my
installation went marginally further. The debug messages in this case were:
bin
bin/cat
bin/chmod
DEBUG: Request for bin/bin.ab from DOS
bin /csh
bin/date
bin/dd
/stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error
pid 37 (gunzip) uid ): exited on signal 11
DEBUG: Switching back to VTY1
/stand/cpio: premature end of file
Is this any hint? Does this mean that the checksum.md5 and install.sh files
that ar on the FTP site are not necessary? If they aren't, are there any other
files that are not necessary as well? The /bin directory on the ftp site
contains the files bin.aa through bin.cq, plus bin.inf and bin.mtr, as well as
checksum.md5 and install.sh.
Or this is this all a red herring?
Thanks for all your help, as I'm completely over my head at this point. While
I've used various unixes numerous times, I have absolutely no knowledge or
experience in installing/maintaining/administering unix.
> > My computer particulars (those that I know)
> >
> > Pentium 75 MHz, TS54P AIO Motherboard (Intel Triton chipset), 16 megs
> > RAM, Fujitsu M1606TA ATA interface hard drive (1089MB)
> >
> > I have a pre-existing 447MB Primary MS-DOS 6.22 partition (altered to
> > that size by fips.exe utility from freebsd site), and am trying to
> > install on a 248 FreeBSD partition. The rest of the disk is empty,
> > reserved for an eventual installation of Windows NT Workstation
> > (unfortunately held up in shipping, now 31 days and counting... :-( ). I
> > also installed the boot manager that came with FreeBSD.
>
> I have a feeling after you get FreeBSD up you will want to cancel that NT
> order. :-)
> IF I ever get FreeBSD up I might wish that I had canceled that order (its
finally coming!) ;-)
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K.C. Komosky
kc@mb.sympatico.ca
Mineralogist, Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting, Flin Flon, Manitoba, CANADA
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