Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 12:26:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca> To: Paul Michael Babuchna <mikeb@tcac.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: quick advise. Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960617121707.10803B-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <199606171559.KAA54436@odin.tcac.com>
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On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Paul Michael Babuchna wrote: > I have been recently downloading BSD 2.1 from: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/bin > > and have run into a problem. I cannot download bin.au. I get an error > message of the form- this sound file is corrupt or a file of incompatible > format. Using Win95 and Win 3.1 and IE2.1. First, make sure you have read the various bits of literature on installing (something in the handbook at http://www.freebsd.org, and some other small files in the ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE directory). You may likely find it easier to do an ftp install. The reason for your error is simple -- netscape (correctly) assumes the .au extension designates an audio file, which is correct most of the time. This is similar to the problem where lynx, when downloading *.flp, or bin.??, doesn't change to binary mode and downloads them as text. I think you can force Netscape to save bin.au as a file by right-clicking on the like. The easiest solution, though, is download use the on-the-fly tar & zipping capabilities of ftp.freebsd.org. Give netscape the following url: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/bin.tar.gz and it should download all the bin directory in one big tar.gz file. Then, just rename this to bin.tgz and put it into the appropriate directory. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk
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