From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 14 18:35:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA09308 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 18:35:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfw-ix2.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix2.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA09303 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 18:35:55 -0700 (PDT) From: shegonee@ix.netcom.com Received: from shegonee.ix.netcom.com (irv-ca22-32.ix.netcom.com [204.33.157.96]) by dfw-ix2.ix.netcom.com (8.6.13/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA17594 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 18:35:22 -0700 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960815014136.00677514@popd.ix.netcom.com> X-Sender: shegonee@popd.ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 18:41:36 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Write failure on transfer! -1 bytes of 10240 bytes) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What does that mean: Write failure on transfer! -1 bytes of 10240 bytes) I am trying to install FreeBSD from the Walnut Creek CD-Rom on a new 1 gig drive on my Pentium. Ine install program creates the partions then bombs out with this message when it start st unzip the files. Can you give me a list of possible reasons why this might happen? I look through the FAQ - a few people have reported this problem but I couldn't any answers. Thanks Kirk :)