From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 12:04:51 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA15843 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 12:04:51 -0700 Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA15799 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 12:04:29 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V4.3-10 #7297) id <01HU2QL49N5S0071HU@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 20:09:52 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id UAA10441; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 20:23:38 +0200 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 20:23:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies Subject: Re: bin/bin.ai and bin/bin.cc In-reply-to: <9508141554.AA15904@ericom> from "Bjoern Linderson" at Aug 14, 95 05:53:36 pm To: etxs.ghost%memo.ericsson.se.etxs.etxbjln@memo.ericson.de (Bjoern Linderson) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org (user alias) Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies Message-id: <199508141823.UAA10441@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-type: text Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-length: 1417 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hello! > > Nice work, the far i got... > I'm a unix 'freak', and cant stand a PC machine, unless > it runs Unix, and freebsd seems to be one of the fastest > systems avaliable. > > I'm having trouble with the installation of FreeBSD. > I downloaded the files in BIN (bin.aa....) > and did everything as told in the installation manual. > The first 8 parts, works just fine, but when i come to > bin.ai, it goofs up. The FTP site's tell me that these parts > should be 235K in size (all other parts are 240640 bytes) > but the bin.ai comes down to 293683 bytes, and the bin.cc > comes to 240632 bytes. > I looked into gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE/dists/bin and find these files being correctly sized (240640). I don't know which sites you have tried but either you did something wrong during the ftp download (bin vs. ascii mode, which I don't assume since you are saying you are a 'unix freak') or something is messed with the sites you tried. > I've been trying to download these files from numerous sites, > all with the same result. Is the file sizes correct?, and if not, > where could i get the 2 files in correct size? > > **HELP!!** > > Please mail the answer to my work email adress, since i don't > have a private one... > > etxs.etxbjln@memo.ericsson.se > > Best regards, Bjoern Linderson > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de