On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Nathan Raymond wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Colin Wood wrote:
> 
> > Brahm Windeler wrote:
> > > hope you can help...
> > > 
> > > i'm having a problem booting netbsd on my mac IIsi.
> > > 
> > > i just downloaded version 1.3.2 mac68k distribution from the ftp site.  i
> > > also downloaded all the macintosh based install files.  the kern.tgz and
> > > kern_sbc.tgz couldn't be unpacked, so i had to download the version 1.3.1
> > > kernel.
> > 
> > could you try this again?  you're the second person to report this, but i
> > just logged into the ftp server to check it and it unarchived just fine.
> > are you sure you transferred it in binary mode?
> 
> To add my $.02, on Saturday I downloaded all the parts to 1.3.2 in binary
> mode, and the installer only had a problem with kern.tgz (I didn't try
> kern_sbc.tgz), saying it couldn't be unpacked.  Downloaded the 1.3.1
> kern.tgz and used that instead with the rest of the 1.3.2 dist.
> 
> --
> Nathan Raymond
> http://www.everythingmac.com
> 
> 
when i downloaded it before, i was using netscape navigator 4.03.  this
time i used fetch 3.03 and forced it to do binary.  i then moved it to a
floppy and put the file on the IIsi harddisk.  i tried installing it using
the install utility and got same error:

Choose file(s) to unpack
Inflating...
invalid compressed data--crc error
Unexpected end of file -- not a valid tar archive.
Try using the mini-shell and cpin or cpout.
Finished extracting kern.tgz.

hope this helps.

-brahm