From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 14 10:23:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA12230 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:23:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA12216 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:23:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA27404 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:24:21 -0700 Received: from mcs.net (brianmcg.pr.mcs.net [199.3.191.175]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.0/8.8.Beta.3) with SMTP id MAA27218; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 12:23:24 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 12:23:24 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199610141723.MAA27218@Kitten.mcs.com> From: "Brian V. McGroarty" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: install@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install 2.1.5 from DOS partition checksum failure Reply-To: catmega@pobox.com X-Mailer: Internet Squire 1.3 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> I'm getting checksum failures almost immediately when starting the install >> of FreeBSD 2.1.5 with a DOS volume as the source. > >Did you remember to download the files in binary mode? Just double >checking. Yuppers -- did a binary transfer. [ description of okay hardware and presumably ok installation procedure deleted ] It occurred to me that I should have mentioned that the "DOS" volume was actually a Windows 95-formatted partition. Perhaps this makes a difference. I got my installation going by using the ppp ftp installer once I found that (a) ppp was forcing /dev/cuaa0 and (b) my Chicago ISP turned out to be the flaky party yet again -- the install works fine with a long-distance call to my California ISP. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brian -- catmega@pobox.com -- Chicagoland ----------------------------------------------------------------- "To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves." - Claude Adrien Helvetius -----------------------------------------------------------------