Subject: Re: Problems with MacBSD archives
To: Thomas Weckert <a2754410@smail1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>
From: The Great Mr. Kurtz <davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/01/1996 09:04:29
On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Thomas Weckert wrote:

> I've downloaded via FTP the NetBSD-1.1 archives several times
> from wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de, but it seems as if the files
> are in some way corrupt: whether I download them in ascii or
> binary mode, the installer always stops with "bad checksum
> in tar header". Please, can anybody tell me an adress of an
> FTP server here in Germany which keeps the NetBSD1.1 archive?
> Has anybody running NetBSD1.1 on a Performa 600 (maybe with X)?
> Is Linuxdoc-SGML available for MacBSD?

Are you unzipping the files with MacGzip or anything like that
before you run the installer?  Wait... are you downloading with
a program that runs MacGzip automatically?  If so confirm binary
mode there.  Otherwise....

ftp.uni-regensburg.de

Later,

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