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From: larson@cs.utk.edu (Chris Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Trouble installing macBSD
Date: 12 Apr 1996 03:56:12 GMT
Organization: CS Labs, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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In-reply-to: lfabish@postoffice.newnham.utas.edu.au's message of 9 Apr 1996
	21:31:36 GMT

In article <lfabish-1004960732210001@annex3-nhm-3.its.utas.edu.au> lfabish@postoffice.newnham.utas.edu.au (Luke Fabish) writes:

:>
:>I've tried getting the files from a couple of sites, but
:>still the same message.  I've unzipped them myself using 
:>MacGzip, and tried installing from as far as they'll unzip,
:>and as a .gz file, but still the same problem.
:>
:>Is there anything I should/shouldn't be doing along the way?
:>Any advice would be very much appreciated.
:>

Don't unzip/untar them. The installer will do that for you.
It seems you might be corrupting them somewhere along the way.

Also, make sure you do any ftp'ing in binary mode.

good luck

Chris
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Chris Larson                   larson@cs.utk.edu
Lab Assistant-Backups     Computer Science Dept.
University of Tennessee- Knoxville