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From: "Marcello Vitaletti" <marcellov@VNET.IBM.COM>
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Subject: DOS filesystem screwing during installation
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Julian,
        thanks a lot for the quick answer. I got the information you asked:

IDE disk 0   WD 814Mb  cyls: 1654 - heads: 16 - sec: 63 - WPcom: 65535
IDE disk 1   WD 203Mb  cyls:  989 - heads: 12 - sec: 35 - WPcom: 65535

Both disks are on the primary IDE (disk0 is Master disk1 is Slave).
I did one more experiment: I copied the FREEBSD DOS files on a PRIMARY
DOS partition allocated at the bottom (112Mb) of DISK1 (I used DISK0 before)
then tried installing again from this media, but got exactly the same
problem. I could not see the message you refer to in your note: first
indication of the problem is gunzip complaints about wrong checksum when
accessing bin/aa distribution file, then all the others follow....
Sounds like I should borrow a SCSI CD-rom to attach to my ADAPTEC 1510!

      Thanks a lot for your help. Pls keep me informed on your investigations.
              Good bye. Marcello.