Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 17:05:18 -0800 From: Fred Condo <fred@condo.chico.ca.us> To: Keven Swingle <swinglek@socantel.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions on install. Message-ID: <11823028.1005584717@[192.168.1.10]> In-Reply-To: <000f01c16bd9$df44d530$03c9fea9@study2000.com> References: <000f01c16bd9$df44d530$03c9fea9@study2000.com>
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--On Monday 12 November 2001 19:26 -0500 Keven Swingle <swinglek@socantel.net> wrote: > I am trying to install freeBSD on my system and I am running into the > following error message. > The system that I am installing on is an older amdk6II 475 the current > system config is windows NT 4.0 on disk 1 > and Redhat Linux on Disk 2, with bootmajic used as the boot loader. I am > trying to install FreeBSD on a 175mb partition of free space on disk 2. I > have created the following partitions > 50 mb / > 50 mb swap > 75 mb /usr > everything seems to go well until the file transfer when I recieve the > following error. > extracting /bin into /directiory > "write failure on transfer (wrote 1 bytes of 240640 bytes)" > what could be causing this error and how do I get around it ? Sounds like your filesystem is filling up. You may not be able to do a full install on such a small disk. Switch to the transcript screen with Alt-F2 to see the specific error message. Alt-F1 takes you back to the main screen. -- Fred Condo - fred@condo.chico.ca.us Repeal the DMCA. Stop censoring Felten & Ferguson. http://www.macfergus.com/niels/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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