On Sat, 11 May 2002, Randy Beaudreault wrote:

> >The kernel was inadvertently stripped. The snapshot mechanism has now
> >been fixed to make an exception for mac68k (and not do that). So, you
> >could either go with an older snapshot, or wait for a newer one.
> >
> >Tell you what -- I built one yesterday, but haven't had a chance to
> >test it yet. I'll put it up now (and remove the old broken one, too).
> >ETA about 7:00pm Chicago time.
>
> Thanks Frederick, the install kernel now boots, but base.tgz has a
> premature eof marker so I can't install your snapshot until that's
> fixed.

Hmm. "tar tzvf base.tgz" works fine on the server, and it passes the
MD5 checksum. Perhaps an error was introduced in downloading? I don't
know of any programs to generate checksums on the Mac, but you could
at least check that the size is correct. Here are the sizes:

-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd       198 May 10 05:46 BSDSUM
-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd       268 May 10 05:46 CKSUM
-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd       468 May 10 05:46 MD5
-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd       199 May 10 05:46 SYSVSUM
-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd  17364296 May 10 05:39 base.tgz
-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd  14340039 May 10 05:43 comp.tgz
-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd    120981 May 10 05:43 etc.tgz
-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd   2919808 May 10 05:43 games.tgz
-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd   1107876 May 10 05:24 kern-GENERIC.tgz
-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd   1106637 May 10 05:24 kern-GENERICSBC.tgz
-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd   6779797 May 10 05:45 man.tgz
-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd   2341082 May 10 05:46 misc.tgz
-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd   1580141 May 10 05:46 text.tgz


Frederick