Install problem

soupman soup at m-net.arbornet.org
Tue Dec 30 19:14:18 PST 2003


Yay!  I figured out the problem.  It turns out it was a user home
directory/URL problem.  Thanks for your help though!

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Peter Pentchev wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 12:44:01PM -0500, soupman wrote:
> > Hello.  I am getting the following error when attempting an FTP install
> > from a Windows machine:
> >
> > Cannot parse information file for the bin distribution: I/O error. Please
> > verify that your media is valid and try again.
>
> How did you originally put the files on the Windows machine?  Are they
> on a CD there, or did you download them from some FTP site?
>
> If you downloaded them via FTP, is it possible that you have downloaded
> them in ASCII, not binary, mode?  If this is so, the files would be
> corrupted, since the FTP transfer in ASCII mode would have placed a lot
> of CR characters before every LF character in the file, and those are
> definitely not needed (and harmful) for the binary tar/gzip archives
> used for the FreeBSD distribution.
>
> In short, if you originally downloaded the files from some FreeBSD
> mirror via FTP, you'll have to fetch them again, this time telling your
> FTP client to use binary, not ASCII, mode for the transfer.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> G'luck,
> Peter
>
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