Re: Installation Problems with Installing the base system

["Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>]

> 4.  Everything went fine untill installing the base system (I skipped
> network config. as I will be using ppp)

did you remember to tell your ftp client "binary"?  this will happen
if you do an ASCII download, which some clients default to.

> I get an error that I cannot read because dinstall is covering it up.  I
> think it says something about invalid archive format.

> I even created floppies and tried, but had a checksum error on the 4th
> disk 3 times with different disks.

Try writing it on a different machine, this works sometimes.  

> I have compared the dates and files sizes of what I downloaded with what
> is out on the network and they match.