Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 22:18:18 -0500 (EST) From: soupman <soup@m-net.arbornet.org> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install problem Message-ID: <20031230221738.M87776-100000@m-net.arbornet.org> In-Reply-To: <20031229160057.GB713@straylight.m.ringlet.net>
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Yay! I figured out the problem. It turns out it was a user home directory/URL problem. Thanks for your help though! On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 12:44:01PM -0500, soupman wrote: > > Hello. I am getting the following error when attempting an FTP install > > from a Windows machine: > > > > Cannot parse information file for the bin distribution: I/O error. Please > > verify that your media is valid and try again. > > How did you originally put the files on the Windows machine? Are they > on a CD there, or did you download them from some FTP site? > > If you downloaded them via FTP, is it possible that you have downloaded > them in ASCII, not binary, mode? If this is so, the files would be > corrupted, since the FTP transfer in ASCII mode would have placed a lot > of CR characters before every LF character in the file, and those are > definitely not needed (and harmful) for the binary tar/gzip archives > used for the FreeBSD distribution. > > In short, if you originally downloaded the files from some FreeBSD > mirror via FTP, you'll have to fetch them again, this time telling your > FTP client to use binary, not ASCII, mode for the transfer. > > Hope this helps. > > G'luck, > Peter > > -- > Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@sbnd.net roam@FreeBSD.org > PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc > Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 > I am the meaning of this sentence. >
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