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From: rsanders@interbev.mindspring.com (Robert Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.0.5-ALPHA install
Date: 02 Jun 1995 23:58:28 -0400
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On 3 Jun 1995 01:43:14 GMT, jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) said:

> I think you're suffering from the "truncated bindist" problem.

> Sometime between when I rolled the original ALPHA dist and when I rolled
> the latest alpha floppies, something got smaller (I believe it was me
> removing some redundant docs) and the count for the bindist was thrown
> off; the floppies were expecting only 59 pieces and the old dist had
> 60.  So they were only grabbing all but the last piece which, by an odd and
> tragic coincidence, was where the very last part of the kernel lived!

When that was happening, the bindisk installation actually failed.
Because the final piece of the gzipped file wasn't transferred, gzip
complained, which caused the rest of the software to complain.  I
fixed that by appending bin.ch to bin.cg, which at least caused the
installation to complete without error.

The kernel gets farther now, but there's a new symptom: it either
hangs at the "npx" status line or hangs after saying "changing root
device to sd0a".  Nothing works after that point.  It looks like all
the device probes before that succeed.

What can I do to get more information for you?

  -- Robert