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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!uunet!in1.uu.net!skypoint.com!usenet From: Troy Barlow <tbarlow@skypoint.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Q: Prob Installing FreeBSD Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 18:26:28 -0600 Organization: SkyPoint Communications, Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3130FE34.735A@skypoint.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial164.skypoint.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) I have a 133mhz Pentium based PC with 32 megs ram, AHA2940 PCI SCSI controller, 2 GIG HD, and a Stealth 64 3200 video card. I grabbed the latest release BASE FreeBSD system, and have a problem. The bootdisk works fine, detects all hardware correctly. But after I select all the install options, and select NOVICE install, this is what happens: It makes all dirs It mounts drives The starts copying the files from my HD C:\FreeBSD dirs Part of the way through the copy it aborts saying a file was corrupt. This file is "cpio" I think. I have no idea what BIN\ file could be corrupt, so I tried replacing all of them without success. Does anyone know what I can do, or what I should look for? Thanks in advance, Troy PS: I dont remember the exact message it gives about the file, but if I switch over with F2, I can see it stopped at "cpio". I think 1 or 2 files before that was "ls". I wish it would tell you what bin.xx file it was :-) Since I downloaded them twice, if it's corrupt, its probably corrupt on the FreeBSD ftp site.