Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!tribune.usask.ca!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!char.ntnet.nt.ca!char.ntnet.nt.ca!not-for-mail From: byronh@char.ntnet.nt.ca (Byron Hynes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problem installing bindist from DOS partition Date: 18 May 1995 19:52:12 -0600 Organization: NTNet Society Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3pgtkc$r2c@char.ntnet.nt.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: char.ntnet.nt.ca I am trying (valiantly!) to install FreeBSD. It's the current version (I think) that lives at ftp.freebsd.org in the 2.0-RELEASE subdirectory. I made the boot and cpio floppies and all went well. I thought it would have been neat to let the install program grab them from the net, but our serial connection is PPP, not SLIP. So, undaunted, I ftp'd all of the files in the BINDIST directory, and put them in a BINDIST directory in the MSDOS partition on the same harddrive in the BSD machine. When the install program starts up (after booting into FreeBSD), I choose the bindist option, and tell it the source is DOS. HOWEVER, I always gets a syntax error when it begins to do the checksums. It flashes by awfully quick, but I believe it's trying to tell me there's a syntax error in do_checksum, error #59, unexpected e-o-f or similar. All of the bindist.* files were ftp'd in binary mode and the others in Ascii. Note: the error isn't JUST that there is a checksum error, but that there is a syntax error in checking the checksum. Any assitance or pointers to relevant documentation will be eagerly received... here, or by email to byronh@char.ntnet.nt.ca. -- Byron