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From: Troy Barlow <tbarlow@skypoint.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Q: Prob. Install FreeBSD
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 18:27:31 -0600
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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.