From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 8 03:39:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA26761 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 03:39:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from punch.ic.ac.uk (punch.ic.ac.uk [155.198.5.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA26756 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 03:39:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from judy.ic.ac.uk by punch.ic.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:39:30 +0000 Received: from mism.ad.ic.ac.uk (mism.ad.ic.ac.uk [129.31.188.88]) by judy.ic.ac.uk (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id LAA12519; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:39:03 GMT Received: from [129.31.189.157] by mism.ad.ic.ac.uk (5.65/4.0) id AA26358; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:47:32 GMT Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:47:32 GMT Message-Id: <9611081147.AA26358@mism.ad.ic.ac.uk> X-Sender: dmg3@mism.ad.ic.ac.uk X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu From: David Goddard Subject: Re: Checksum problems installing 2.1.5R Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 01:29 PM 11/7/96 -0800, Doug White wrote: >Hm. Have you checked bin.ac by any chance? Perhaps it is corrupted and >is causing this chain of events. 'Fraid so - weighs in at a healthy 240,640 bytes... >> 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. Yes, wierd - common sense (and the archive) would tell me to check my file transfer yet again, even though I'm certain its OK, but I suspect that I have another problem, espescially considering that the FTP install falls over (and that *must* be doing the FTP properly, right? ;-). My first attempt at this installation was using the setup FTP install, putting on most of the binary distribution, all of which loaded fine except the bin and the manpages. If we rule out FTP problems, that leaves two possibilities: The binary dist on ftp.cdrom.com is corrupt (highly unlikely) or There is something dodgy about my setup. Apart from re-partitioning my drives and plugging in a wee bit more RAM, I've not changed my setup since I had 2.1.0 installed. HD corruption? Other hardware fault? I had a few glitches when I originally installed 2.1.0 (including, I think, checksum errors), but they were all down to problems trying to install the root partition on my second HD and went away when I found the right configuration. Could it be anything to do with active/bootable partitions? Am I clutching at straws? Only glitch I had previously had with 2.1.5R was getting boot.flp to work - it wouldn't boot. Dodgy floppy I think, but after a few attempts it worked. Is it worth doing a new boot.flp on a fresh floppy just in case? Still clutching at straws? Incidentally, given the number of failed installs I have, it's a real pain that the boot floppy doesn't save my configuration options :-( Dave -- David Goddard Management Information Services, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK Telephone: +44 (0)171 594 7282, Fax: +44 (0)171 594 7277 Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself.