From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 22 22:25:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA09743 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:25:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA09724 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:24:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA07918; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:23:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:23:56 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Pablo Ares Gastesi cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install problem In-Reply-To: <199712160131.HAA18384@moduli.math.tifr.res.in> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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