From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 10 10:16:17 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA19130 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:16:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (196-7-192-135.iafrica.com [196.7.192.135]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA19117 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:16:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.7.6/8.6.12) id UAA00373; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 20:12:45 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199612101812.UAA00373@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199612101624.LAA19088@newton.kamsc.k12.mi.us> from anders at "Dec 10, 96 11:24:51 am" To: ascholl@newton.kamsc.k12.mi.us (anders) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 20:12:43 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 " > ...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