Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 13:24:54 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Leo Kliger <leo@astea.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation errors Message-ID: <19990205132454.Q1179@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199902050255.NAA02041@astea.com.au>; from Leo Kliger on Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 01:47:54PM %2B1100 References: <199902050255.NAA02041@astea.com.au>
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On Friday, 5 February 1999 at 13:47:54 +1100, Leo Kliger wrote: >> On Friday, 05 February 1999 01:44 PM, MadMan <madman593@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> I am currently trying to install FreeBSD 3.0 on one of my computers. >> I have installed it on the same computer before with no problems. >> When transferring the /bin directory, I get many errors including: >> >> /stand/cpio: warning: skipped xxxx bytes of junk >> /stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error >> /stand/cpio : No such file or directory >> /stand/gunzip: <fd:0>: invalid block type >> /stand/cpio: premature end of file >> >> . (In no particular order or number of (same) errors.) >> >> Do you have any suggestions? (I highly doubt that any changes were >> made between installations.) Thank you! > > i may be way off..... but maybe the drives gone bad have you tried > "fsck"??? Yes, you're probably off. This is corruption within a single file, and the original poster didn't even say whether the (cpio) archive was on disk, though it appears to be a floppy. I'd guess floppy data corruption. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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