From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 14:37:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA19561 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:37:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flash.tss.com (splash.tss.com [192.216.111.239]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA19547 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:37:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by flash.tss.com (4.1/1.37) id AA19333; Thu, 18 Jul 96 14:39:27 PDT Received: from unknown(160.101.20.20) by flash.tss.com via smap (V1.3) id sma019309; Thu Jul 18 14:39:14 1996 Received: from rv02 by tekbspa.tibco.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00625; Thu, 18 Jul 96 14:39:14 PDT Message-Id: <9607182139.AA00625@tekbspa.tibco.com> Reply-To: From: "Derek Collison" To: Subject: Installation issue Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:36:23 -0700 X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1085 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am trying to install 2.1.5-RELEASE from a DOS partition. I have the freebsd contents under a directory called freebsd on the DOS partition. As I go through novice installation I tell it to use this as the media. It seems to think awhile and then gives the following error. write failure on transfer wrote (-1 bytes of 10240 bytes). My system is as follows. Hardware Dell Dimension XPS 166c 2 EIDE 2GB Drives Software System Commander Windows 95 Linux If anyone has seen this behavior I would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance, =derek -- Derek Collison <--> collison@TIBCO.com TIBCO Inc. The Information Bus Company