Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 16:03:58 GMT From: David Goddard <d.m.goddard@ic.ac.uk> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Checksum problems installing 2.1.5R Message-ID: <9611101603.AA27662@mism.ad.ic.ac.uk>
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At 11:29 AM 11/8/96 -0800, Doug White wrote: ... >Have you tried deleting and recreating the FreeBSD partition you're >installing into? Sometimes old failed installs clash and cause all manner >of wacky problems. In fact you should never install over a failed >install. OK, I may have had a problem here.. At what stage does the FreeBSD partition manager commit changes to the disk? I've gone to the extent of deleting the FreeBSD partitions after a failed install, rebooting, and trying to install again. When I do this, after rebooting, the partition editor shows the deleted partitions as unused, so I've been assuming they've been properly deleted. Is this a correct assumption? Could there be remnants of a failed install causing problems. My first install failed due to network problems (FTP install couldn't cd to the distribution [*]) so there ouwld have been a failed attempt on there already. ... >I would be more inclined toward a disk problem. Uh-oh :-( Thanks, again, for your help. David [*] - FTP install has regularly fallen over for me, either failing to cd to the distribution or failing to make a connection. I have a direct ethernet link to my local mirror, so I am rather puzzled by this. This may be just the luck of the draw, but FTP using a client running on a Solaris box, or even windows, generally always seemed more reliable than on my old FreeBSD box. The particular problem has always been retrieving a directory listing - it would just hang until the connection timed out. Data transfer rates and all other commands were fine. Using Netscape as a FTP client also worked fine. I can't personally see how this would be a client problem, but is it? -- David Goddard Management Information Services, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK Telephone: +44 (0)171 594 7282, Fax: +44 (0)171 594 7277 Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself.
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