Hello.
Yesterday I tried to install a buzz-fixed system. As the disk I wanted to
install onto, was a SCSI disk connected to a ncr810, I had to use one of
the special kernels - number 5 in buzz-fixed/.../disks-i386/special-kernels.
At the time of the part of installation where the kernel is installed I got
an error saying something of type of "error in archive".
Some half hour of checking later I had found out that the modules.tgz files
on all of the special kernels (.../special-kernels/boot1440_2.0.5-?.bin)
are corrupt.
This was done by doing "dd if=boot1440_2.0.5-5.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k
mcopy a:modules.tgz .
tar -zvvtpf modules.tgz", where this last step results in an error message
saying "premature end of file".
The boot1440_2.0.5-?.bin files was fetched from a mirror, so be really
sure that I had the latest (and greatest) files I did this check on
boot1440_2.0.5-3.bin and boot1440_2.0.5-5.bin from the same directory on
ftp.debian.org as well.
Same error on those as well.
This is not a cry for help. I managed to install anyway by un-taring (getting
the error) and then re-taring the files that was extracted. This lead to
some interesting choices when selecting modules, such as a module "*"!
However I think we should correct the erroneous files.
I know that there has been some other messages regarding this, especially one
where somebody asked for a better specification of the problem, but I've
deleted those messages so I dont know who it was that was asking that.
Please contact me if you want more information.
Debug mode,
MartinS
