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Date:      Tue, 30 Sep 1997 08:54:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Avionics <dbresi@blr.vsnl.net.in>
Cc:        support@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970930085342.22901A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19970929081030.1fd77838@blr.vsnl.net.in>

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On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Avionics wrote:

> Dear Sir/Madam
> 
> I am trying to install Freebsd on my computer.I have partitioned the hard
> disk into two partitions, using FIPS. One of these I did a format /s on, to
> be able to boot into DOS. I am unable to load Freebsd from the CDROM since
> it is not being detected.(I think the reason could be that it is a 12x ATAPI
> IDE CDROM ).I have the dos drivers for the CD, and copied the contents of
> the whole CD onto a directory on the DOS partition called Freebsd. I then
> tried loading bsd from the DOS partition, but it says :
> 
>         Write failed ( -1 bytes copied of 1024 )
> 
> What do I do??

Please hop over to the ALT-F2 console when this happens and record any
error messages there.  (Press ALT-F1 to get back to the menu system.)
This error message is generic, there will be more detail on the debug
console.

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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