From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 29 08:00:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4479016A4CF for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 08:00:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from gandalf.online.bg (gandalf.online.bg [217.75.128.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34EE843D3F for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 08:00:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roam@ringlet.net) Received: (qmail 20982 invoked from network); 29 Dec 2003 15:58:34 -0000 Received: from office.sbnd.net (HELO straylight.m.ringlet.net) (217.75.140.130) by gandalf.online.bg with SMTP; 29 Dec 2003 15:58:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 3709 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Dec 2003 16:00:57 -0000 Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:00:57 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: soupman Message-ID: <20031229160057.GB713@straylight.m.ringlet.net> Mail-Followup-To: soupman , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <20031223124014.W41190-100000@m-net.arbornet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031223124014.W41190-100000@m-net.arbornet.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:00:42 -0000 --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 12:44:01PM -0500, soupman wrote: > Hello. I am getting the following error when attempting an FTP install > from a Windows machine: >=20 > Cannot parse information file for the bin distribution: I/O error. Please > verify that your media is valid and try again. How did you originally put the files on the Windows machine? Are they on a CD there, or did you download them from some FTP site? If you downloaded them via FTP, is it possible that you have downloaded them in ASCII, not binary, mode? If this is so, the files would be corrupted, since the FTP transfer in ASCII mode would have placed a lot of CR characters before every LF character in the file, and those are definitely not needed (and harmful) for the binary tar/gzip archives used for the FreeBSD distribution. In short, if you originally downloaded the files from some FreeBSD mirror via FTP, you'll have to fetch them again, this time telling your FTP client to use binary, not ASCII, mode for the transfer. Hope this helps. G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@sbnd.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 I am the meaning of this sentence. --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/8E+57Ri2jRYZRVMRAnhnAKCx+UcvPD0a52mxXOQRsIkvl+dqhQCeLHu9 lHc893fvtpeC0WVVo3HpHek= =ZUlG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd--