From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 22:56:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA10272 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 22:56:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA10267 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 22:56:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA05707; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 22:58:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 22:58:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Josh Williams cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A fairly common install problem? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Josh Williams wrote: > Hi. I've been searching through the archives of the list and I've seen > this question pop up quite a few times. Every time I try to install > FreeBSD it comes up with the error that it can't write to the disk or > something like that. The debug screen says there's a checksum error > when it opens the bin.aa file. I'm sure I downloaded it correctly from > the FreeBSD.org ftp site, since I used three different FTP programs > using binary transfer on all three. So far I haven't really seen > anything that'll fix my problem. Could you tell me exactly how to fix > this problem, if it can be fixed? I'm sure there's a solution if so > many people are having this problem. Oh well. Thanks. Is bin.inf on the first disk? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major