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Date:      Fri, 14 Jul 1995 09:21:00 -0500 (CDT)
From:      John Lind <john@starfire.mn.org>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD questions)
Subject:   CD/FTP 2.0.5R installation
Message-ID:  <199507141421.JAA21625@starfire.mn.org>

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I just my FreeBSD 2.0.5R CDs yesterday, and I am trying to install it onto
a secondary system using FTP from my FreeBSD 1.1 system.  The rational is
that I cam going to get it up and running on the secondary system, recompile
and handle any porting issues there, then do the install directoy from the
CD on the main system (currently running FreeBSD 1.1) as quickly and with
as little down time as possible.  (This secondary system was running
a SNAP just prior to the CD release before clearing it for this
attempt.)

That's the theory, but I am getting all kinds of grief.  Things seemed fine,
but extracting into the /bin directory has generated all sorts of errors
on vt1 and now seems to have stalled completely.  The error messages I am
getting on the installing sytem run like this:
...
/stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error
/stand/cpio: warning: skipped 1069056 bytes of junk
/stand/cpio: cannot remove current: Is a directory
...

On the FreeBSD 1.1 system (providing the FTP service from the CD), I am
getting one line like this, seemingly for every file:
...
isofs:RR[5] idflag=0xf09d6db4
isofs:RR[5] idflag=0xf09d6e2a
isofs:RR[5] idflag=0xf08d36a0
isofs:RR[5] idflag=0xf08d3716
isofs:RR[5] idflag=0xf08d378c
...

I also got a couple of these:
isofs: name 'Jul 14 06:51:00 dexter su: john to root on /dev/ttyp3
isofs: name 'isofs: name 'isofs:RR[5] idflag=0xf09d6ed8
isofs:RR[5] idflag=0xf09d6d70
isofs:RR[5] idflag=0xf085597c
isofs: name 'isofs:RR[5] idflag=0xf09b2214


I suspect the solution is going to be to bite the bullet, yank the CD
from the main system, and do a direct install, but if there is a way
involving less hardware swapping, I'd sure like to hear it!

		   John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services
E-mail: john@starfire.MN.ORG		USnail: PO Box 17247, Mpls MN  55417



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