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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!wupost!gumby!destroyer!ncar!csn!teal!jks From: jks@teal.csn.org (John Stevenson) Subject: Re: extract says its corrupt, damit! Message-ID: <jks.716600594@teal> Sender: news@csn.org (news) Nntp-Posting-Host: teal.csn.org Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc. References: <3540@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:43:14 GMT Lines: 41 solsman@ra.nrl.navy.mil (Mark Solsman) writes: I had the same problem with an ESDI drive, it turned out that the disk controller was having problems and needed to be replaced. It seemed to be placing the data down in the same place. If you want an interesting test try this: rename etc01.71 to bad01 and bin01.46 to bad02 then reload them. Good luck. bye . >Hello, >I am having trouble installing 306bsd. This morning, I mread the bin dist >into /tmp and then extracted them fine. However, when the system accidently >rebooted, I decided that I should start over from scratch rather than invest >more time and kill myself later. >So I did just that, and now no matter what the hell I do, extract tells me >that etc01.71 and bin01.46 are corrupt. Now, I am using the same disks >are I did before, and I even re-ftp-ed them from my workstation to my PC, >when that didn't work, I even re-ftp-ed them from agate.berkeley to my PC, >When that didn't work, I even ftp-ed them from agate.berkeley to my 386bsd >setup using slip. No matter what I do, these two files etc01.71 & bin01.46 >are corrupt. >Does anyone have any ideas of what I am doing wrong? I have re-installed >tiny-bsd many times and started over and over from scratch. Does anyone >have an idea of how to fix my situation. >thanks in advance >-Mark >Gateway 386/25 w/ 8megs, 105meg bsd partition active on drive 0, ati vga, >esdi, mread b:*.* /tmp - from 3.5" >-- >Mark Solsman Building 1, Code 5160 >United States Naval Research Laboratory solsman@ra.nrl.navy.mil >Washington, DC (202) 767-5769