Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 18:33:22 -0500 From: wpflum@zdial.com To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Floppy install - ongoing problem Message-ID: <01bd40b3$6e80cb60$9b9307c6@pflum>
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I've been trying to install from floppy to a small system,
386 DX40, 245 meg IDE drive, 8 meg memory, 1 - 1.44 floppy, a vga card and I
get as far as past setup and drive setup and to media installation and
inserting the first install disk
and after a few seconds I get a "WRITE FAILURE ON TRANSFER (WROTE -1 BYTES
OF 1024 BYTES)". The debug screen says- DEBUG: REQUEST FOR /DIST/BIN/BIN.AA
FROM FLOPPY ON /DIST, PROBE 0. PID 53 (GUNZIP), UID 0: EXITED ON SIGNAL 11
(CORE DUMPED) /STAND/CPIO: PREMATURE END OF ARCHIVE The system appears to
read about 50k of floppy and then I get the above error.
I've been told that it could be a memory module problem... I've changed mem
modules and still get the error I've tried having the drive sectors checked
a number of times. The mother board has an AMI Bios on it. Is there any
problems with bios as it relates to FREEBSD?? All I'm trying to do is get a
small Unix system up and running to do some experimenting with??? H E L
P ! ! ! ! ! If the only answer is bad mem modules then can anyone tell me
how I can check them?? I've down loaded a couple of ram test program and
the all say mem if fine????
Frustrated in Reading!!!!!!!
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