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Date:      Sat, 5 Dec 1998 22:12:03 -0500
From:      "Dru" <genisis@istar.ca>
To:        "Nik Tranby" <ntranby@schools.tec.mn.us>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 2.2.8 install problem
Message-ID:  <000401be20c6$3dc09fc0$7601d8cf@genisis>

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-----Original Message-----
From: Nik Tranby <ntranby@schools.tec.mn.us>
To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: December 5, 1998 8:51 PM
Subject: 2.2.8 install problem


>Ok I'm installing version 2.2.8 for the first time, and I have this
problem.
>I'm installing off of floppies for various reasons. I start installing the
>bin distribution, and when I get to disk 7 (about bin.bk) and it gives me
>this error message: "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024
>bytes).  Help! What's going on here?


Sounds like a bad floppy to me.  Try formatting a different floppy and
re-copying the required files to it.

Good luck; hope you enjoy FreeBSD!



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