From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 16 07:43:40 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA26724 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 07:43:40 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA26713 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 07:43:35 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id AAA01219; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 00:24:12 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507161454.AAA01219@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: CD/FTP 2.0.5R installation To: john@starfire.mn.org (John Lind) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 00:24:11 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199507141421.JAA21625@starfire.mn.org> from "John Lind" at Jul 14, 95 09:21:00 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1825 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Lind stands accused of saying: > That's the theory, but I am getting all kinds of grief. Things seemed fine, > but extracting into the /bin directory has generated all sorts of errors > on vt1 and now seems to have stalled completely. The error messages I am > getting on the installing sytem run like this: > ... > /stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error > /stand/cpio: warning: skipped 1069056 bytes of junk > /stand/cpio: cannot remove current: Is a directory > ... This indicates that the datastream to this machine is corrupted. > On the FreeBSD 1.1 system (providing the FTP service from the CD), I am > getting one line like this, seemingly for every file: > ... > isofs:RR[5] idflag=0xf09d6db4 > isofs:RR[5] idflag=0xf09d6e2a > isofs:RR[5] idflag=0xf08d36a0 > isofs:RR[5] idflag=0xf08d3716 > isofs:RR[5] idflag=0xf08d378c RR implies the rockridge code; the 2.0.5 CD has RockRidge (long filename) extensions; the code in earlier FreeBSD's for dealing with these extensions is broken. Mount the CD with the RR extensions disabled (check the manpage for details on this.) > I suspect the solution is going to be to bite the bullet, yank the CD > from the main system, and do a direct install, but if there is a way > involving less hardware swapping, I'd sure like to hear it! Try the above; I had a local PA site lose their server every time they tried to mount a RR disk. > John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[