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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: problem installing binary distribution
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In article <1ka7qiINNob7@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> engelsma@golden.cps.msu.edu (Jonathan Engelsma (Reid)) writes:
>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.
Sounds like it's on a bad sector -- you did rename the bad file rather than
deleting it or just leaving the same bad area to be overwritten when you
redid the loadfd so it didn't just rewrite good data on a bad area again
and again, right? This bit me back in the 0.0 days...
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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