Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 13:29:07 -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.3.94.961107132720.13237A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9611071126.AA28732@mism.ad.ic.ac.uk>
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On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, David Goddard wrote: > >What do your partitions look like? > > wd0 Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags > > 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 > 63 950481 950543 wd0s1 2 fat 6 > 950544 81648 1032191 wd0s2 3 freebsd 165 > > wd1 > 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 > 63 993825 993887 wd1s1 1 unknown 7 > 993888 667296 1661183 wd1s2 3 freebsd 165 > > wd1s1 is an NTFS partition. That is OK. > The BSD partitions are divvied up as follows: > > Partition Mount > > wd0s1 <none> [dos] > wd0s2a / ~40Mb > wd1s2b <none> [swap] ~32Mb (a little small, I know) > wd1s2e /usr ~290Mb > > I had previously had a seperate /var partition on wd1, but decided to have > just /usr this time. Checking out so far. > These are the messages I get when trying to install from a DOS partition: > > [non-error output snipped] > DEBUG: Request for bin/bin.ad from DOS > bin/mv > /stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error > /stand/cpio: warning: skipped 220838 bytes of junk > /stand/cpio: warning: cannot remove current: Is a directory > /stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error > DEBUG: Request for bin/bin.ae from DOS > bin/mv Hm. Have you checked bin.ac by any chance? Perhaps it is corrupted and is causing this chain of events. > 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. > I did a search of the archive for these errors, but the only references this > turned up were pointing to FTP mistakes. 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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