Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 12:29:24 -0700 From: "K.C. Komosky" <kc@mb.sympatico.ca> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Instalation Problems Message-ID: <32419F14.7A57@mb.sympatico.ca> References: <199609191023.MAA29447@allegro.lemis.de>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > Michael Grove writes: > > > > I am running into problems installing the Minimum FreeBSD 2.1.5 package from > > a DOS partition on one Hard Drive onto a Second drive that will be devoted > > to FreeBSD. I can get through all the configeration steps but when it tryes > > to accually copy the files over it returns the following error ... > > > > Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes) > > > > Unable to transfer the bin distribution from wd0s1 > > > > I have all the bin files in the directory C:\FreeBSD\Bin. I am also running > > Win95. Any ideas as to what could be wrong?? > > Win95. > > > Thanks in advance for any help you supply. > > This is becoming a FAQ. If you have trouble installing from a > Microsoft partition, don't do it. Use CD-ROM or tape or even > floppies. We really can't anticipate all the nonsense that Microsoft > does, and I suspect that this particular problem is due to an > incompatibility between Win95 and the traditional FAT16 file system. > > Greg I don't think thats it. I wrote in yesterday with what sounds like the same problem in installing (i.e. from a DOS partition, getting the same error message), but my machine is NOT running Win95, and never has. Since I've been completely unable to install from my hard drive, I'm going to try installing from floppies (in case anyone cares). -------------------------------------------------------------------------K.C. Komosky kc@mb.sympatico.ca umkomosk@cc.umanitoba.ca Mineralogist, Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting, Flin Flon, Manitoba, CANADA -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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