Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 17:45:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: TURLOUGH FITZPatric <106154.3334@compuserve.com> Cc: questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Install problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960728174329.381H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199607271621_MC1-763-6C27@compuserve.com>
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On Sat, 27 Jul 1996, TURLOUGH FITZPatric wrote: > Hi there, > I am experiencing some problems while installingg 2.1R. I am trying to use > a partition occupied by win95 which contains the required files to install > onto in another partition. There seams to be problems doing this and I get > a lot of : > > write failure on transfer (wrote -1 bytes of 10240 bytes) > Unable to transfer the bin distribution from wd0s1 I believe this indicates a geometry or conflicting install. Try this: 1) Use DOS FDISK to blow away the FreeBSD partition. 2) Make a small primary DOS partition on that disk. 3) Install on the disk, deleting the DOS partition you just made in the fdisk editor. > I copied the files onto the win95 partition from the CD as the cd seams to > be unsupported(could this be a problem). What kind of CD is it? ATAPI is supported, somewhat; it's always worth a try. I would try 2.1.5-RELEASE if you can get it. > In vt2 there are errors like > > gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated > /stand/cpio: premature end of file Try enabling debug mode to see where it's barfing exactly. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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