Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 11:26:16 GMT From: David Goddard <d.m.goddard@ic.ac.uk> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, d.m.goddard@ic.ac.uk Subject: Re: Checksum problems installing 2.1.5R Message-ID: <9611071126.AA28732@mism.ad.ic.ac.uk>
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At 09:26 PM 11/6/96 -0800, Doug White wrote:
>Have you tried regrabbing the checksum file?
Yes.
>It should be the exact same size as bin.aa.
All except for the last one are 240,640 bytes.
>What do your partitions look like?
wd0 Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags
0 63 62 - 6 unused 0
63 950481 950543 wd0s1 2 fat 6
950544 81648 1032191 wd0s2 3 freebsd 165
wd1
0 63 62 - 6 unused 0
63 993825 993887 wd1s1 1 unknown 7
993888 667296 1661183 wd1s2 3 freebsd 165
wd1s1 is an NTFS partition.
The BSD partitions are divvied up as follows:
Partition Mount
wd0s1 <none> [dos]
wd0s2a / ~40Mb
wd1s2b <none> [swap] ~32Mb (a little small, I know)
wd1s2e /usr ~290Mb
I had previously had a seperate /var partition on wd1, but decided to have
just /usr this time.
>What is the exact error messages from sysinstall on the ALT-F2 debug
>console?
These are the messages I get when trying to install from a DOS partition:
[non-error output snipped]
DEBUG: Request for bin/bin.ad from DOS
bin/mv
/stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error
/stand/cpio: warning: skipped 220838 bytes of junk
/stand/cpio: warning: cannot remove current: Is a directory
/stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error
DEBUG: Request for bin/bin.ae from DOS
bin/mv
/stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error
/stand/cpio: warning: skipped ......
[etc. etc.]
So it looks like it's having the same problem with all files from .ad
onwards - this pattern just repeats until all the files have been gone
through, at which point the installation fails.
Direct FTP install from ftp.cdrom.com produced similar messages.
I did a search of the archive for these errors, but the only references this
turned up were pointing to FTP mistakes.
>> I'm installing the root partition on the last 40Mb of my 504Mb primary HD,
>> with the rest on a partition on my second HD. Both drives are IDE. I'm
>> starting with clean partitions each time I attempt an install.
>
>Ouch. That is near 1023 cylinders. You need to watch that value.
That disk has 1024 cyls in total, so the root partition starts below the
1023 mark. This arrangement worked for my old installation, so I assume its OK.
...
>> Finally, is there likely to be (read-only, even) support for mounting NTFS
>> file systems in the near-ish future? I read something about someone having
>> knocked something together, but I don't have any details.
>
>Not at the present time.
:-(
Thanks for getting back to me.
Dave
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