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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.mindlink.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installation Hell!!! Help!!! Date: 9 Dec 1995 06:16:42 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4ab9ka$m7q@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4aba5a$aep@news.cyberspy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <4aba5a$aep@news.cyberspy.com>, David Rairigh <graver@cyberspy.com> wrote: >I am having the following installation problem. > While extracting bins, the system hangs on "bin.ch" with the message: > Invalid checksum > Writing -1 bytes of 10140 It's like I told you in email - you have a corrupt distribution somehow. I don't know how it got corrupted in between here and there, but many many people have installed from the distribution on ftp.freebsd.org and a number of its mirrors without incident. I've also verified the distribution on ftp.freebsd.org and it's just fine, bin.aa through bin.cp. Is your bin.ch file 240640 bytes long? That's the first thing to check, though it still won't guarantee that those bytes are valid. For that, a checksum is needed. Just in case you have access to md5 on another machine, the md5 signatures for all the bin.c* distribution files are: MD5 (bin.ca) = 083cb6293148f49e5ecd2e1590b13fcb MD5 (bin.cb) = c48b4810c25eb19de6c239a40b38cfd8 MD5 (bin.cc) = c8ba0a0b01d8771f187c2e34ad23bdff MD5 (bin.cd) = 2ef3e5bf5ec9eb1a49ec76f8ae7497fb MD5 (bin.ce) = 33656f095804691b0a5db4f8018e3b72 MD5 (bin.cf) = 66571b7f07730a2c84e3bd2e56d4320a MD5 (bin.cg) = c1b17d51143fb31a48aeb33e2f91d30e MD5 (bin.ch) = ca57ce983dfea6b23774166cedaca836 MD5 (bin.ci) = caa780159c2dc540dc6bff3eaa2df624 MD5 (bin.cj) = bdf448f73d2f86540f5f7927dfe646fd MD5 (bin.ck) = c8b3b322182b4a7bb1276005831384b8 MD5 (bin.cl) = 56aa339b7e35faee287c88a32c148b21 MD5 (bin.cm) = 56d912aec309baf5a2d0112cb6d1fca2 MD5 (bin.cn) = 85a7c651176d4ed87db94ee23c4eb536 MD5 (bin.co) = 28fc5318a7325564ce2811cdbbad30b6 MD5 (bin.cp) = 8e814bb85b0256f58e8d7a54766f6cba To aid future wayfarers, I've just put CHECKSUM files up for each distribution under the 2.1-RELEASE subdirs on ftp.freebsd.org. Jordan