From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 13 14:38:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12230 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 14:38:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.wr.com.au (wr.com.au [203.12.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12212 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 14:38:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gharris@mail.wr.com.au) Received: from aplyozsq (dialup209.wr.com.au [203.27.69.209]) by mail.wr.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA15651; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 07:37:25 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199806132137.HAA15651@mail.wr.com.au> From: "Gary Harris" To: "Andrew Karageorgis" Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 07:34:00 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Install problems CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19980613193412.11728.qmail@hotmail.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I would like to inform you of a problem I cam accross while trying to > install FreeBSD. As I tried to run setup, it informed m that bin.cc was > of incorrect size. Checking it latter I found it to be 237k unlike the > rest of the files. I tried downloading it again but th problem is still > there. > I would be obliged if you could provide a solution to my problem > Thank you in advance, This one I can fix, Andrew. The problem is that your brower is enlarging the file. You'll note that it is shown as a readable file in the browser window, Netscape in my case, and even when you "save link as" rather than read and save, it'll enlarge. Probably because it's being saved as text rather than binary. The solution is to use a dedicated ftp programme and download in binary mode. This one took me a day or two. :-) I'm going to put my experiences on "paper" when I'm done so I'd appreciate knowing what operating system and software you're downloading with. Cheers. Cheers, Gary. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gary Harris PowWow: gharris@wr.com.au ICQ Pager: http://wwp.mirabilis.com/827286 EMail: gharris@wr.com.au EMail: gharri01@postoffice.csu.edu.au WWW: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/1473/ PGP Public Key available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message