Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:15:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: David Slavik <valgar@cu-online.com> Cc: freebsd-install@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Write Failure on install Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970115191446.10649M-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199701141738.LAA07590@babba.cu-online.com>
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On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, David Slavik wrote: > I'm install freeBSD 2.1.5 onto a dual drive system with NT4.0 and Win95 > already loaded. the second drive (a Maxtor 3.5gig) is completely free > . The boot drive (a seagate 1.275gig) has NT4 and win95 plus misc. > files using up about 900 megs of space. > I attempted to install freeBSD to the Maxtor drive, I set aside about > 2gigs for the bsd partition, I copied the /dist files (all of em) to the c: > drive, then ran install from the cd-rom (a hitachi 4x speed, not supported once > BSD loaded). Install proceeded smoothly until I got to the actual file > copying phase. When It began to copy the dist files it would get about 100-200kk > of the initial /dist/bin then give me this error > Write Failure On Transfer > (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes) Hit 'ALT-F2' at this point and record any strange error messages. You could have a corrupt file, missing bin.inf file, or an unhappy DOS filesytem. 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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