Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:25:23 -0500 From: RWinters@QKan.Quintiles.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems installing 3.3 Release over DOS partition Message-ID: <85256815.004E7B88.00@qrtplc01.qrtp.quintiles.com>
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OK, I tried deleting the freebsd\bin directory and copying over (using binary)
everything in the bin directory again. Still the same problem. So, I deleted
the *entire* freebsd directory and copied *everything* (using binary) again. I
thought this would fix the problem for sure, but still the exact same thing
happened.
Any other suggestions?
"Joe Pepin" <jpepin@lucent.com> on 10/18/99 08:39:17 AM
Please respond to jpepin@lucent.com
To: "Mark Ovens" <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, Roger
Winters/QKAN/Quintiles@Quintiles
cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: Problems installing 3.3 Release over DOS
partition
I had *EXACTLY* this same problem. I had FTPed the distros (correctly,
using binary) over a modem (it took 18 hours) I then placed them on a Linux
server and did an FTP install. Evidently, the bin.xx containg chown got
corrupted. From your "emergency holographic shell" do an ls of /bin, /sbin,
/usr/bin, and /usr/sbin you'll probably find a bunch of commands missing. I
had to re-download all the bins, (another 5 hours) then it all worked.
HTH,
Joe Pepin
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From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mark Ovens
Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 7:13 PM
To: RWinters@QKan.Quintiles.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Problems installing 3.3 Release over DOS partition
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:34:11AM -0500, RWinters@QKan.Quintiles.com w=
rote:
> Please help a complete newbie....
>
> I'm trying to install the 3.3 release over a DOS partition and I'm
> having some trouble. The trouble is that I'm getting a "Makedev
> returned non-zero status" error message and installation quits.
> When I did an alt-F2, I found quite a few "chown not found" error
> messages and "abort trap" error messages. I decided to do the
> whole installation again, but this time I watched the message
> log. During the copying bin into / process, I got a lot of error
> messages about "stand/cpio: bad header", "stand/cpio: bad checksum",
> and "stand/cpio: ignoring XXXXX bytes of junk". I thought this
> was probably due to a problem with one of the files in the /bin
> directory, so I copied (FTP) over everything in the /bin directory
> to my local hard drive again. The problem repeated itself. I've
> also tried remaking the floppies with fresh copies of kern.flp and
> mfsroot.flp, but that didn't work either.
>
This is just a guess but did you FTP the files as binary? Some
smart-arse FTP programs will default to ASCII mode and convert all
instances of LF with CR-LF which is guaranteed to trash your files.
HTH
> Some specifics about my system:
> It is an AMD K6-2 400 MHz
> 128 MB RAM
> Primary IDE0: 13 GB used by Win98 (FAT32)
> Secondary IDE0: 1 GB (this is where I want to install FreeBSD)
> Primary IDE1: 405 MB used as backup (FAT16)
> Secondary IDE1: CD-ROM drive
> Two parallel ports
> Mouse on COM1
> Modem on COM2
>
> I originally had Red Hat Linux 6 install on half of the 1 GB drive
> and I tried to install FreeBSD on the other half. I thought that
> might be causing the problem, so I tried deleting Linux and using
> the entire drive for FreeBSD, but that did not fix the problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
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