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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Colin wrote:

> I'm trying to install from a dos partition.  After i make the 
> partitions, and it starts to install the bin.aa, etc from the dos 
> partition, and then, i can see in the second virtual console, cpio is 
> getting all kinds of errors, about the checksums, etc.. Anyone know what 
> i could do?

How did you get the distribution packages?  If you FTPd them, you may 
have accidentally downloaded them in ascii mode.  Perhaps the checksum 
file is missing too...?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major