From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 15 21:02:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA08319 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 21:02:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line12.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA08309 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 21:02:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00640; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 21:02:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 21:02:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Fung Boro cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't write In-Reply-To: <96Sep16.020559+0800hkst.42610-271+275@stu.ust.hk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Fung Boro wrote: > I have heard about the power of FreeBSD and now trying to install it. > But I found that after I have done all the requirements, when extracting > the files to /, /usr and /var, it prompts me "Can't write to destination". > Would you help? For more information, please mail im_fbx@ustsu4.ust.hk. > ThX in advance! Hm. Take a look at the ALT-F2 output. It sounds like you've messed up the fdisk and/or disklabeling. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major