Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 18:49:46 -0500 From: Roy Wood <rrwood@io.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Problem installing bindist; everything else mysteriously okay... Message-ID: <199502182349.SAA06865@grin.io.org>
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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Problem installing FreeBSD bindist Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: world Organization: Internex Online (io.org) Data: 416-363-4151 Voice: 416-363-8676 Keywords: Cc: Okay, this is weird, and it's *not* in the FAQ (I hope). I'm installing FreeBSD 2.0 (release version, not the "current" version), and everything goes along well except that the bindist does not install. The manpages go on fine, and the kerndist is okay, too, but the bindist just dies partway through extraction. The checksums are all okay, but extraction still dies silently (even the debug screen shows nothing). All the obvious problems are not a problem-- i.e. the disk has been sliced properly to give a 50M DOS partition and a 154 FreeBSD partition; the FreeBSD partition (er, make that slice-- same for the DOS one) has been partitioned with partition "a" as 20M for root, partition "b" as 24M swap, partitions "c" and "d" for the FreeBSD slice and whole disk (in whatever order disklabel defaults, which ought to be correct), partition "e" is 10M for /var, partition "f" is 70M for /usr, and "h" is linked to the DOS slice. See-- I'm not a complete dweeb newbie moron. Of course, the bindist is stored in the DOS slice in a directory called "BINDIST", too. The installation procedure seems to do the checksumming okay, but as I keep saying, the extraction quits after only a minute or two. Go figure. In desperation, I've dropped to the shell and am doing a "cat /mnt/bindist/ bindist.* | gunzip | tar -xvf -" with current directory as "/", and things seem to be unpacking okay. I'm just worried that this is not going to do everything necessary, so I'd appreciate some suggestions.... Help! -Roy
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