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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Fatal problem with `root.flp' during installation Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 14:28:35 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3113E193.ABD322C@FreeBSD.org> References: <DM69Dz.14w@uns.bris.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: Simon Trasler <Simon.Trasler@brunel.ac.uk> Simon Trasler wrote: > I'm very confused by this, I thought it would just be another file. Everything > else goes on OK, but the disk images (`fixit.flp' - I tried this too to see if > it would work) _always_ fail. I think you're running into a problem that crept in somewhere between 2.0.5 and 2.1 where the DOS filesystem driver gets really confused by certain combinations of drive geometries and DOS partitions. I can't reproduce it here, but enough people have reported a transfer error on root.flp (which is the first thing actually xferred off the DOS partition during a DOS installation) that I now have strong reason to believe that we, somehow, managed to make our already flakey MSDOS filesystem code even worse. Happily, someone recently volunteered to be "point man" on the MSDOS filesystem code recently, and we can only hope to see some improvements there fairly shortly. My best recommendation to you right at this point is to try the ftp installation method again, this time figuring out why it didn't work last time. I've checked the distribution at ftp.uk.freebsd.org and it looks fine, as are also probably those at ftp2.uk.freebsd.org and ftp3.uk.freebsd.org - you should be able to suck any one of those like a greased weasel across that nifty JANET backbone you guys in the UK have.. :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project