From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 29 11:55:03 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 41D1D16A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:55:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from arbornet.org (m-net.arbornet.org [209.142.209.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B5A43D53 for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:54:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from soup@m-net.arbornet.org) Received: from m-net.arbornet.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arbornet.org (8.12.3p2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id hBTJwqFL078519; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:58:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from soup@m-net.arbornet.org) Received: from localhost (soup@localhost)hBTJwpbB078513; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:58:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:58:51 -0500 (EST) From: soupman To: Peter Pentchev In-Reply-To: <20031229160057.GB713@straylight.m.ringlet.net> Message-ID: <20031229145040.L76999-100000@m-net.arbornet.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:58:10 -0800 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 19:55:03 -0000 Hi, thanks for the reply. I downloaded the files from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.8-RELEASE/ onto my computer with Windows XP, and then used the Windows Direct Cable Connection (DCC) to transfer the files from the XP machine to the Windows 95 machine. I then checked the file sizes on the Windows machine and they match up exactly with the files on the FreeBSD server. So that's not the problem. I think it's something to do with how I set up the FTP server on the Windows box, but I can't see exactly where I went wrong. Like I said before, the FreeBSD machine seems to have no trouble finding the files on the Windows box. Cheers! On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Peter Pentchev wrote: > 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: > > > > 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 > > -- > 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. >