On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 12:44:01PM -0500, soupman wrote: > Hello. I am getting the following error when attempting an FTP install > from a Windows machine: > > Cannot parse information file for the bin distribution: I/O error. Please > verify that your media is valid and try again.
How did you originally put the files on the Windows machine? Are they on a CD there, or did you download them from some FTP site? If you downloaded them via FTP, is it possible that you have downloaded them in ASCII, not binary, mode? If this is so, the files would be corrupted, since the FTP transfer in ASCII mode would have placed a lot of CR characters before every LF character in the file, and those are definitely not needed (and harmful) for the binary tar/gzip archives used for the FreeBSD distribution. In short, if you originally downloaded the files from some FreeBSD mirror via FTP, you'll have to fetch them again, this time telling your FTP client to use binary, not ASCII, mode for the transfer. Hope this helps. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 I am the meaning of this sentence.
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