Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 13:58:08 From: MYoung@scaleable.com To: bsd@s3ihq Subject: install comment Message-ID: <0B0FFE1F81NNNOIP@scaleable.com>
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I downloaded the FreeBSD bin files and tried to install them from a DOS partition on a generic 486 machine. Part of the way through the install, I got the error message Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes) Unable to transfer distribution for wd0s1 It took me quite a while to realize that one of the bin files that I downloaded was too small. It would have been much easier if the error message was better. At first I thought that something was wrong with my hard disk since a write failure was reported and not some kind of read problem.
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