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- From: jks@teal.csn.org (John Stevenson)
- Subject: Re: extract says its corrupt, damit!
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- References: <3540@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:43:14 GMT
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- solsman@ra.nrl.navy.mil (Mark Solsman) writes:
- I had the same problem with an ESDI drive, it turned out that the disk
- controller was having problems and needed to be replaced. It seemed to be placing
- the data down in the same place. If you want an interesting test try this:
- rename etc01.71 to bad01 and bin01.46 to bad02 then reload them.
- Good luck.
- bye
- .
-
-
- >Hello,
-
- >I am having trouble installing 306bsd. This morning, I mread the bin dist
- >into /tmp and then extracted them fine. However, when the system accidently
- >rebooted, I decided that I should start over from scratch rather than invest
- >more time and kill myself later.
-
- >So I did just that, and now no matter what the hell I do, extract tells me
- >that etc01.71 and bin01.46 are corrupt. Now, I am using the same disks
- >are I did before, and I even re-ftp-ed them from my workstation to my PC,
- >when that didn't work, I even re-ftp-ed them from agate.berkeley to my PC,
- >When that didn't work, I even ftp-ed them from agate.berkeley to my 386bsd
- >setup using slip. No matter what I do, these two files etc01.71 & bin01.46
- >are corrupt.
-
- >Does anyone have any ideas of what I am doing wrong? I have re-installed
- >tiny-bsd many times and started over and over from scratch. Does anyone
- >have an idea of how to fix my situation.
-
- >thanks in advance
-
- >-Mark
-
- >Gateway 386/25 w/ 8megs, 105meg bsd partition active on drive 0, ati vga,
- >esdi, mread b:*.* /tmp - from 3.5"
-
-
- >--
- >Mark Solsman Building 1, Code 5160
- >United States Naval Research Laboratory solsman@ra.nrl.navy.mil
- >Washington, DC (202) 767-5769
-