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Subject: misc/1899: Installation failure from MS-DOS Partition
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>Number:         1899
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Installation failure from MS-DOS Partition
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 27 00:10:01 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Teo Chee-Kiat
>Organization:
Nil
>Release:        2.1
>Environment:
Can't do this
>Description:
Try to install from a MS-DOS partition. Everything seemed ok till 
sysinstall really try to install from the MS-DOS partition.
A dialogue box  " Write failure on tranfer! (wrote -1 bytes
of 10240 byte)" appears. The background (ALT F2) display this messages
(followed from a much longer list)
" bin/cat
  bin/chmod
  bin/cp
  pid 23:gunzip:uid0:exited on signal 11
  DEBUG: Doing [Default] close called for wd0s1 with fd of 7
  DEBUG: switch back to VTY1
  /stand/cpio: premature end of file"

  If I retry, the message appears on the back ground is
  "gunzip:stdin: not in gzip format"
   followed by some others.

   I do not know information I could provide. 

   HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   Thanks in advance.
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