From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Dec 12 00:25:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA18291 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 00:25:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA18255 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 00:24:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA27381; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:21:26 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA00324; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:21:26 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA17379; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:00:23 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512120800.JAA17379@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: your mail To: graver@cyberspy.com (David Rairigh) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:00:22 +0100 (MET) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199512120031.TAA04354@cyberspy.com> from "David Rairigh" at Dec 11, 95 07:31:56 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As David Rairigh wrote: > > I wrote: > > >Hey Ho! > >I am a small-time PCer in Tampa. I downloaded the BINs from > >CDROM.COM and have ran into a snag. > > > >The Version is the newest, 2.1.0(?). > > > >While extracting the binaries my system always hangs on > > bin.ch > >I get the message: > > Invalid checksum. > > Writing -1 of 10140(?) > >From this point it quits the installation. Perhaps your hardware (memory -- remember, there's often no longer a parity bit warning you about memory errors; disk subsystem) has got some problems. Try relaxing the timing, play with the cache options etc. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)