Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 16:44:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Lloyd Osten <losten@eagle.wbm.ca> Cc: Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bad distribution file?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960323164102.255B-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199603230436.WAA08333@eagle.wbm.ca>
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On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Lloyd Osten wrote: > Hi! I'm absoluely brand new to the world of FreeBSD and Unix programs. > OK, I know ZERO about it, but I want to learn. After several days of > trying, I almost got FreeBSD installed. It "died" on the file bin.cc. > I noticed this file is 1482 bytes larger than all the rest of the > binary files. An error message came up saying it couldn't read this > file (I think there was a -1 somewhere in there) Is this file damaged > in some way? Yes. They should all be the same, except for the last one which should be smaller. > I found it on your home site plus the mirror site in > Canada. It's the same number of bytes both places. (It's for release > 2.1) gdi,ttyp2,/cdrom/dists/bin,22>ls -l bin.c* -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 240640 Nov 15 11:12 bin.ca -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 240640 Nov 15 11:12 bin.cb -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 240640 Nov 15 11:13 bin.cc -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 240640 Nov 15 11:13 bin.cd -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 240640 Nov 15 11:13 bin.ce -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 240640 Nov 15 11:13 bin.cf -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 240640 Nov 15 11:13 bin.cg -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 240640 Nov 15 11:13 bin.ch -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 240640 Nov 15 11:13 bin.ci -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 240640 Nov 15 11:13 bin.cj -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 240640 Nov 15 11:13 bin.ck -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 240640 Nov 15 11:14 bin.cl -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 240640 Nov 15 11:14 bin.cm -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 240640 Nov 15 11:14 bin.cn -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 240640 Nov 15 11:14 bin.co -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 21121 Nov 15 11:14 bin.cp That is how they are on my 2.1 CD. > I didn't realize that the files on floppy disks (which is how I'm > installing it) had to be in a directory /bin. I don't know if I read > that in the installation instructions;quite possibly it's there and I > missed it. I think you did. You should copy as many of the bin.* files to a floppy as you can fit, and keep using floppies until all the files are copied. This comprises the "bin" distribution set. Proceed for the other dists you wish to install. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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