Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 15:40:19 +0000 From: philip@state51.co.uk (Philip Crewdson) To: questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: UK 2.1.5 Mirror CORRUPT? Message-ID: <v01540b00ae9a7f0cae2a@[194.159.145.12]>
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I've just spent the weekend running around in circles trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.5 from the UK mirror at Imperial College (Sunsite N. Europe). I tried installing via FTP, NFS and from a DOS partition, with exactly the same result each time: "Write failure on transfer" at some point in most of the directories. As a last resort, I tried FTP-ing from FreeBSD.org itself - perfect installation first time, and twice the speed I was getting from Imperial down the road. SO..... I have to ask, has anyone successfully installed from the UK mirror recently? i.e. since August?? If I'm right, does anyone know who's responsible for that mirror site? AND, BTW How about a FAQ for this "Write failure on transfer" message? Looking back through the lists and groups, it seems to be a very common problem, especially since the message seems to cover a wide range of errors, e.g. bad geometry, corrupt data, memory cache problems et al. I think if there was more testimony on record on how people had solved the problem, installation could be made a lot easier. Philip ============= Philip Crewdson philip@state51.co.uk a member of the state51 conspiracy http://www.state51.co.uk/ raft crew http://www.vmg.co.uk/
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