Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 11:24:51 -0500 (EST) From: anders <ascholl@newton.kamsc.k12.mi.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <199612101624.LAA19088@newton.kamsc.k12.mi.us>
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A couple days ago I decided to install FreeBSD 2.1.6. I dl'ed all the necessary files for a minimum installation off of an existing dos partition, and tried to install. The install script worked fine; it appeared to partition my drive just fine, etc, but for some reason it didn't want to untar the binaries correctly...I don't have the exact error message here, but it was essentially "cpio: bad checksum header <filenametoextract>" ...each archive except the info archive aborted with this error message at some point...most of them managed to get a couple files out, and some of them got past the first .aa package...I thought this might have been because I was installing off of a vfat partition (I'm running winNT) so I tried to install off floppy, but alas, the root.flp file discussed in the documentation was nowhere to be found, so I couldn't install off of floppy...I tried making another extended dos partition with msdos and installing off of that, in case the problem was that it was a vfat partition, but it couldn't mount the partition....I also tried to connect via PPP and do an ftp install; for some reason when I made a PPP connection it would drop carrier immediately...I know that the split files are not corrupt; I concatenated them and untar.gz'ed them....Does anybody have any tips? ...I've read the documentation quite thoroughly, and the only thing I know to do is to try to figure out how to manually install using the shell from the fixit floppy (which I expect shall be fairly difficult as I have absolutely no FreeBSD experience...) Any help is appreciated greatly. --anders
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