From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 7 21:38:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA12602 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 21:38:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA12574 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 21:38:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA27571; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 21:36:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 21:36:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Donn Miller cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crc errors in tar files In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Donn Miller wrote: > I recently was unpacking the full FreeBSD source distribution in > single-user mode (with install.sh all), and I noticed that I got a crc > error in the sys dist. But when I tried to upack the sys distribution by > itself, the gzip errors went away. I repeated this a couple of more times > with no errors. I had everything mounted async. Hm, I'd be concerned about possibly bad RAM or processor cache, or just a bad read depending on the source. Where were you loading the distribution from? CD? Network? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message