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Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newshost.marcam.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!palmer.demon.co.uk!palmer.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.0.5 and CKSUMS Date: 13 Aug 1995 19:02:06 +0100 Organization: none Lines: 22 Message-ID: <40lemu$4oa@palmer.demon.co.uk> References: <40fkrf$pup@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: palmer.demon.co.uk In article <40fkrf$pup@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>, Keith Kovala <bkovala@umich.edu> wrote: >I've finally got the floppies to install, and the kernel loaded onto the HD, >but I can't get the bindist to install due to a missing CKSUMS file. >All the CKSUMS files I find only go up to bin.cd or so, and 2.0.5 goes >up to bin.ch if I remember right. Where can I get the proper CKSUMS >file, or can it be recreated (if so how)?? I'm sorry. CKSUMS? There IS no CKSUMS file for 2.0.5 or later... not if you are using the 2.0.5 install. There is a checksum for all the bits generated and hidden away on the root floppy for the system to use, but it's (at time of writing AFAIR) unused due to a lack of development time during the 2.0.5 release. The only place that checksums would be used is on floppy installs (perhaps DOS installs also, but that's a matter for when we come to write the code :-)), so unless you are doing a floppy install, you shouldn't be asked for a CKSUMS file... Gary