From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 10:46:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA01864 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 10:46:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from punch.ic.ac.uk (punch.ic.ac.uk [155.198.5.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA01858 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 10:46:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from judy.ic.ac.uk by punch.ic.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Wed, 6 Nov 1996 18:46:22 +0000 Received: from mism.ad.ic.ac.uk (mism.ad.ic.ac.uk [129.31.188.88]) by judy.ic.ac.uk (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id SAA24405; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 18:45:47 GMT Received: from [129.31.189.157] by mism.ad.ic.ac.uk (5.65/4.0) id AA16156; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 18:54:15 GMT Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 18:54:15 GMT Message-Id: <9611061854.AA16156@mism.ad.ic.ac.uk> X-Sender: dmg3@mism.ad.ic.ac.uk X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: David Goddard Subject: Checksum problems installing 2.1.5R Cc: d.m.goddard@ic.ac.uk Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I'm having some trouble re-installing FreeBSD. I recently re-formatted my HDs and installed WinNT 4.0 and am trying to install 2.1.5R in place of my old 2.1 installation. I'm running into a problem with the checksums during the install. The files it has the problem with are bin.ad and one of the manpages files. I've tried the follwing installation methods: FTP using the setup program from the mirror at SunSite Northern Europe; Installing from a DOS partition after getting the files from SunSite (making sure that the transfer was binary, of course); Same again, but getting the files from ftp.cdrom.com; Same again, using Samba to get the files from SunSite. Every time, the same error on the same file. I've checked bin.ad, and its the right size and I definitely didn't transfer it in ASCII mode, so I don't think it's the transfer that's the problem. I'm installing the root partition on the last 40Mb of my 504Mb primary HD, with the rest on a partition on my second HD. Both drives are IDE. I'm starting with clean partitions each time I attempt an install. The only other errors I can see during the install are a couple of messages telling me that the last ~2000 sectors of my drives are unallocated - is this connected? I used DOS FDISK to carve up the drives in the first place. A secondary question - I still have my existing OS-BS boot manager in place and would like to use that to select between FreeBSD and the NT boot manager. Is this a sensible way of doing it or should I really add FreeBSD to the NT boot manager options? Finally, is there likely to be (read-only, even) support for mounting NTFS file systems in the near-ish future? I read something about someone having knocked something together, but I don't have any details. I've looked in the docs and the archive for help with the install problem, but I can only find references to the files being transferred in ASCII, so this is my last resort, although I'm probably missing something stupid.. Many thanks, Dave -- David Goddard Management Information Services, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK Telephone: +44 (0)171 594 7282, Fax: +44 (0)171 594 7277 Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself.