From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 9 11:22:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA01823 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 11:22:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA01809 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 11:22:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA04197; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 11:22:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 11:22:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Hector L Samalot cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <9702071715.AA23182@nj2.n-jcenter.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Hector L Samalot wrote: > P133 > 16MB RAM > 1033M HD with a partition for DOS. > 600MB PRI-DOS partition > 300MB FreeBsd partition > > I keep getting "panic: bad dir" when i am installing. Then it > automatically reboots the machine and i have to start all over with the > installation. I am installing from the DOS partition, and sometimes, when > i install from the floppy i get another message saying "Write failure on > transfer! (wrote -1 byte of 1024)" > Is there anything you know about this problem? I can't tell with this information. . What install method are you using? . What is any output on the ALT-F2 debug console? . Have you tried deleting the failed install slice and installing clean? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major