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- From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
- Subject: Re: How to check Checksums?
- Message-ID: <michaelv.711730149@help.cc.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <NEAL.92Jul21085411@neal.ctd.comsat.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 14:49:09 GMT
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- In <NEAL.92Jul21085411@neal.ctd.comsat.com> neal@neal.ctd.comsat.com (Neal Becker) writes:
-
- >Maybe this is a stupid question. I got bin01.00-bin01.56, ftp'd 'em
- >to a pc, put 'em on floppies, took 'em home. Then I'm told bin01.11
- >is corrupt. Major dissapointment!
-
- >How can I check the checksums in the MANIFEST on my unix machine at
- >work *before* I transferring to my PC?
-
- Two other people pointed out the probable cause of this. I was having
- this problem also. It kept telling me bin01.12 and .13 were corrupt.
- So, I'd rm them and go back to school and download them again and still
- corrupt. But, it wasn't the files themselves that were corrupt.
-
- What it was seeing was a bad spot on the hard drive that the files were
- sitting over. For some reason, the stripped down utils on the dist.fs
- disk didn't see the bad spot, just the corrupted file.
-
- The fix is this:
- 1) Load all the bin01 files to the /tmp dir (if they're not
- already there).
- 2) Do NOT rm the file. Rename it: mv bin01.11 bad.bin01.11.
- That way it will hold the bad spot on your hard disk so
- nothing else gets put there.
- 3) Simply reread bin01.11 to the /tmp dir, like this:
- mread a:bin01.11 /tmp
- 4) Run extract again. If it complains about another file being
- corrupt, repeat the procedure for that file.
-
- Good luck and hope this fixes your problem.
- --
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- Michael L. VanLoon "Ignorance is bliss..."
- michaelv@iastate.edu -- Computer Engineering, Iowa State University
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