On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:39:03 +0200, vnorrman@cc.hut.fi wrote:

> > > Stupid question, are you sure the file is not corrupt?
> > 
> > There's no cksum in miniroot. This looks more like tar is corrupt, 
> > because there was not any problem with gunzip. Did someone test that 
> > miniroot's tar is ok? Maybe a problem with crunchgen. Could be broken 
> > hardware aswell.
> 
> Miniroot's tar is ok. The problem was that the cf card in pcmcia
> slot did not work correctly. I was trying to extract a tar file from
> pcmcia slot to cf slot using miniroot, which did not work.
>
> I copied the tar files to the msdos partition of the cf slot using
> wince. Then I extracted tar files using just one cf card and
> everything worked ok.
> 
> Maybe netbsd's driver for the pcmcia slot has some problem.

Another stupid question, have you tried to put the CF card that has
miniroot (and now the base.tgz file) into the pcmcia slot to test if
it works there?


SY, Uwe
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