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Date:      Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:00:22 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        graver@cyberspy.com (David Rairigh)
Cc:        bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <199512120800.JAA17379@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199512120031.TAA04354@cyberspy.com> from "David Rairigh" at Dec 11, 95 07:31:56 pm

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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. ;-)



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