From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 17 09:25:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA11362 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:25:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA11347 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:25:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA07206; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 12:25:31 -0400 Received: (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA13769; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 12:27:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 12:26:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Paul Michael Babuchna cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: quick advise. In-Reply-To: <199606171559.KAA54436@odin.tcac.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Paul Michael Babuchna wrote: > I have been recently downloading BSD 2.1 from: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/bin > > and have run into a problem. I cannot download bin.au. I get an error > message of the form- this sound file is corrupt or a file of incompatible > format. Using Win95 and Win 3.1 and IE2.1. First, make sure you have read the various bits of literature on installing (something in the handbook at http://www.freebsd.org, and some other small files in the ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE directory). You may likely find it easier to do an ftp install. The reason for your error is simple -- netscape (correctly) assumes the .au extension designates an audio file, which is correct most of the time. This is similar to the problem where lynx, when downloading *.flp, or bin.??, doesn't change to binary mode and downloads them as text. I think you can force Netscape to save bin.au as a file by right-clicking on the like. The easiest solution, though, is download use the on-the-fly tar & zipping capabilities of ftp.freebsd.org. Give netscape the following url: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/bin.tar.gz and it should download all the bin directory in one big tar.gz file. Then, just rename this to bin.tgz and put it into the appropriate directory. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk