Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 01:28:52 -0800 (PST) From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh> To: andrew@ugh.net.au, jkh, freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: misc/2348 Message-ID: <199701010928.BAA20791@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Synopsis: sysinstall: corrupt file causes restart State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: jkh State-Changed-When: Wed Jan 1 01:26:03 PST 1997 State-Changed-Why: I'm afraid that this isn't a bug so much as a pre-requisite of sysinstall - you either have good media or you're hosed, and with the way the tarballs are split into pieces, simply skipping one really isn't an option. If one piece is bad, the whole distribution is effectively toast and there's really not a lot I can do about it. This will all be solved as a side-effect of going to a more robust distribution archive format, so there's not much point in leaving this PR open as it won't be solved by fixing sysinstall in that way (sorry). There's been talking of reviving the automated checksumming, which would at least verify the media before starting. I will look into this.
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