Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 20:12:43 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: ascholl@newton.kamsc.k12.mi.us (anders) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <199612101812.UAA00373@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <199612101624.LAA19088@newton.kamsc.k12.mi.us> from anders at "Dec 10, 96 11:24:51 am"
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anders wrote: > A couple days ago I decided to install FreeBSD 2.1.6. I dl'ed all the > necessary files for a minimum installation off of an existing dos partition, > and tried to install. The install script worked fine; it appeared > to partition my drive just fine, etc, but for some reason it didn't > want to untar the binaries correctly...I don't have the exact error message > here, but it was essentially "cpio: bad checksum header <filenametoextract>" > ...each archive except the info archive aborted with this error message at > some point...most of them managed to get a couple files out, and some of > them got past the first .aa package... FreeBSD has a problem accessing DOS filesystems that have a cluster size exceeding 16K. This has very recently been fixed, but may account for these errors. > I thought this might have been because I > was installing off of a vfat partition (I'm running winNT) so I tried to > install off floppy, but alas, the root.flp file discussed in the > documentation was nowhere to be found, so I couldn't install off of > floppy... I haven't read the documentation lately, but I have installed 2.1.6 off of floppies for a client. Ignore references to `root.flp': it isn't needed. > I tried making another extended dos partition with msdos and > installing off of that, in case the problem was that it was a vfat > partition, but it couldn't mount the partition.... Don't know why this was a problem. As long as your FAT/VFAT partition is of type 1, 4, or 6 it should be accessible, even if there are long filenames. > I also tried to connect > via PPP and do an ftp install; for some reason when I made a PPP connection > it would drop carrier immediately...I know that the split files are not > corrupt; I concatenated them and untar.gz'ed them....Does anybody have any > tips? ...I've read the documentation quite thoroughly, and the only thing I > know to do is to try to figure out how to manually install using the shell > from the fixit floppy (which I expect shall be fairly difficult as I > have absolutely no FreeBSD experience...) > Any help is appreciated greatly. If you don't mind the extra effort, installing off of floppies is probably the way to go, since it is the most certain to work. -- Robert Nordier
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