Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:23:56 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Pablo Ares Gastesi <pablo@math.tifr.res.in> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971222222333.7705m-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199712160131.HAA18384@moduli.math.tifr.res.in>
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On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Pablo Ares Gastesi wrote: > I am new to Free BSD, and I am having some installation problems. > > I booted my machine (a Pentium @166 with 16MB RAM, 1.2 GB Seagate) with > the boot floppy without any problem. I went thru disk partitioning and > all that smoothly. The method I chose was NFS. I had downloaded the bin > distribution from ftp.freebsd.org in one of my machines, and export it. > The mount and the beginning of the installation (of bin) went fine, but > after a few files, cpio started giving a checksum mismatch problem, and > did not do anything (although it took a lot of time) The CHECKSUM and > bin.inf files were downloaded from the distribution in > ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.5-RELEASE/bin, as well as the other > bin.xx files. > > Does any one know what could be wrong? What shall I do? Make sure you downloaded the files in binary mode; the chunks should all be the same size except for the last one. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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