From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 4 07:43:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA07241 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 07:43:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from io.iosys.net (io.iosys.net [207.67.20.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA07233 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 07:43:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.inc.net (ppp-12.iosys.net [207.67.20.44]) by io.iosys.net (Netscape Mail Server v1.1) with SMTP id AAA167 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 09:51:53 +0100 Message-ID: <3204B68E.2E90@iosys.net> Date: Sun, 04 Aug 1996 09:41:18 -0500 From: samurai@iosys.net (Rich Bornhofer) X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ftp to dos partition didn't work well. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I have recently been having troubles trying to do the FTP install to my system. I have tried every thing i can think of, and my modem doesn't seem to want to work under com2 (com3 and com4 work, but com2 just won't go..) So.. I opted for zipping up half of my C: drive to make room for a dos partion install, FTPed the bin, doc, info, xfree86 stuff i wanted, etc.. to my dos drive.. under c:\freebsd\. I am guessing that i have the files in the right place, as when i start the actual install, it starts reading files and building the file structure. The problem is, in bin and doc, i get invalid header: checksum error and then it says (via alt+f2) /stand/cpio: cannot remove current: Is a directory errors.. The system keeps asking me if i would like to try again, with the same results. I also noticed that the transfer rate quickly dropped from 200+K/s to 15K/s.. is that from the decompressing of the .tgz files? (as i would hope). Anyway, the question is, if i am ftping the files from freebsd.org why am i getting checksum errors for most of the bin dist, and plenty of the doc dist? And more importantly, how can i get 'clean' coppies? FYI i am using WS_FTP95-lite, retrieving the 2.1.5 dist. and retrieving the entire directory for each dir i need (except the xfree86) and this is all going on on a p133 with 16M edo 256k pipeline burst machine (to help with the slowed transfer question) with a 28.8 modem doing the transfering (i don't seem to usualy have a problem with data integrity with this modem).. I would very much like to try the FreeBSD OS so i would really appriciate any help you can offer as to how to get the show on the road (short of trying to locate a CD of the dist ;). Thanks in advance, Ray, the guy who may never get to run freebsd :( samurai@iosys.net