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From: engelsma@golden.cps.msu.edu (Jonathan Engelsma (Reid))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: problem installing binary distribution
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Date: 29 Jan 93 03:20:50 GMT
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Organization: Michigan State University, CPS Department
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I'm posting this on behalf of my brother who is attempting to get
386bsd running on his new 386.
I downloaded the dist.fs with the 0.2 patches and the bin01.xx
files for him onto floppy. He was successful in getting the
Tiny kernel to boot and was able to install it onto his hard disk
and boot from hard disk.
He loaded the bindist files into /tmp using the loadfd command
as directed in INSTALL.NOTES. When he proceeded with the extract bin01
command, it reported to him that bin01.29 was bad. I ftp'ed a new copy
from agate, which he reloaded using the loadfd command. When he runs
the extract bin01 command it still chokes on bin01.29. We tried it
three times, even ftped it from a different site, but for some reason
it doesn't like whatever bin01.29 we give it. The file sizes are
the same as they are on the distribution site, and we did remember to
set the file type to binary.
About right now we feel quite foolish and frustrated. Anybody else have
this problem? Can anybody tell us what we are doing wrong?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jon
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Jonathan R. Engelsma Michigan State University
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E-mail: engelsma@cps.msu.edu Computer Science
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