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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!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!newspump.wustl.edu!oldfart.ecl.wustl.edu!news From: jxh@plethora.cs.wustl.edu (James Hu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installation Hell!!! Help!!! Date: 09 Dec 1995 12:09:47 -0600 Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Lines: 22 Sender: jxh@plethora.cs.wustl.edu Message-ID: <qtfn39285xw.fsf@plethora.cs.wustl.edu> References: <4aba5a$aep@news.cyberspy.com> <4ab9ka$m7q@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plethora.cs.wustl.edu In-reply-to: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu's message of 9 Dec 1995 06:16:42 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.12 >>>>> "jkh" == Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> writes: In article <4ab9ka$m7q@agate.berkeley.edu> jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: jkh> In article <4aba5a$aep@news.cyberspy.com>, David Rairigh jkh> <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 jkh> It's like I told you in email - you have a corrupt distribution jkh> somehow. I don't know how it got corrupted in between here and jkh> there, but many many people have installed from the distribution jkh> on ftp.freebsd.org and a number of its mirrors without incident. jkh> [...] You may also want to try changing the options for a slow net connection. This might get you past the problem. -- James