Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:37:25 +0100 From: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> To: whitehat@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: floppy install Message-ID: <E128iZB-00035T-00@rz114s0-priv-server> In-Reply-To: <85jkng$1tjg$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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In article <85jkng$1tjg$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> you wrote:55 > Hi, I am currently trying to re-install FreeBSD 3.3 on my 486, and I am > getting an interesting error on the last two disks of my installation > floppies. The error says "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of > 1024 bytes)" I have tried replacing the last two disks numerous times to > no avail; so I know that the disks are not damaged. Is it that the > files themselves are corrupt? [...] It's possible, but not very probable. I don't know if this will help, but here are some ideas: - if the error occurs soon after going to one floppy, maybe it was the last file on the previous floppy that was defective. - All the files (e.g. bin.aa, bin.ab, ...) are supposed to have a size of 240640 bytes (except the last one of each distribution and the .inf files). (In case you downloaded the files with a web browser, especially check the files with the extensions .ai and .cc .) - At the beginning of the installation, you could go to the "Options" screen and enable "Debugging". Later, when the error occurs, hit ALT+F2 to see the debugging messages. (Probably this won't help much, though). - Is it possible that the disk or partition is full? You could hit ALT-F4 to go to the emergency shell and enter "/bin/df<RETURN>" to see if there's no space left. (df should be available by the time you reach the last few floppies.) > Also, is their any way to compress a > hard drive in DOS previous to a FreeBSD installation? [...] I'm afraid I only know that such tools exist, not how you'd do this. Bye, Philipp -- http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~un1i/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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