From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 30 08:55:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA03107 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 08:55:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA03101 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 08:55:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA22908; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 08:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 08:54:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Avionics cc: support@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19970929081030.1fd77838@blr.vsnl.net.in> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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