From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 18:16:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA06780 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 18:16:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU [128.250.6.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA06729 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 18:16:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from s_koyin@localhost) by eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (8.7.4/8.7.3) id LAA02548; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 11:16:41 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 11:16:40 +1000 (EST) From: HMG coA reductase To: Derek Collison cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation issue In-Reply-To: <9607182139.AA00625@tekbspa.tibco.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 i saw this happen when the DOS partition you've mounted and want to read from has a cluster size > 32k (ie, > 64 sectors per cluster). my solution: FIPS the big DOS partition to create a smaller partition, then format this one in DOS. copy the freebsd files to this new partition, and mount this one. you can un-FIPS it after installation, but your original big DOS partition would not be _safely_ readable from BSD still. ivan On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Derek Collison wrote: > 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). > > [snip]