Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 19:12:37 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: RWinters@QKan.Quintiles.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing 3.3 Release over DOS partition Message-ID: <19991018191237.A322@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <8525680E.004F4DF1.00@qrtplc01.qrtp.quintiles.com> References: <8525680E.004F4DF1.00@qrtplc01.qrtp.quintiles.com>
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On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:34:11AM -0500, RWinters@QKan.Quintiles.com wrote:
> Please help a complete newbie....
>
> I'm trying to install the 3.3 release over a DOS partition and I'm
> having some trouble. The trouble is that I'm getting a "Makedev
> returned non-zero status" error message and installation quits.
> When I did an alt-F2, I found quite a few "chown not found" error
> messages and "abort trap" error messages. I decided to do the
> whole installation again, but this time I watched the message
> log. During the copying bin into / process, I got a lot of error
> messages about "stand/cpio: bad header", "stand/cpio: bad checksum",
> and "stand/cpio: ignoring XXXXX bytes of junk". I thought this
> was probably due to a problem with one of the files in the /bin
> directory, so I copied (FTP) over everything in the /bin directory
> to my local hard drive again. The problem repeated itself. I've
> also tried remaking the floppies with fresh copies of kern.flp and
> mfsroot.flp, but that didn't work either.
>
This is just a guess but did you FTP the files as binary? Some
smart-arse FTP programs will default to ASCII mode and convert all
instances of LF with CR-LF which is guaranteed to trash your files.
HTH
> Some specifics about my system:
> It is an AMD K6-2 400 MHz
> 128 MB RAM
> Primary IDE0: 13 GB used by Win98 (FAT32)
> Secondary IDE0: 1 GB (this is where I want to install FreeBSD)
> Primary IDE1: 405 MB used as backup (FAT16)
> Secondary IDE1: CD-ROM drive
> Two parallel ports
> Mouse on COM1
> Modem on COM2
>
> I originally had Red Hat Linux 6 install on half of the 1 GB drive
> and I tried to install FreeBSD on the other half. I thought that
> might be causing the problem, so I tried deleting Linux and using
> the entire drive for FreeBSD, but that did not fix the problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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