Date: Sat, 18 Jan 97 22:45:24 UT From: "Gary Brown" <Zilgen@msn.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can't install FreeBSD-2.1.6 basic (bin) installation on my Sony PCV-90 with 2.5 GB IDE drive Message-ID: <UPMAIL09.199701182247330327@msn.com>
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I have attempted to install the FreeBSD-2.1.6 base system (i.e., '/bin' packages only) onto my Sony PCV-90 PC which has a 2.5 GB IDE disk drive. The system already has Win95 installed and has a 'C:' partition which occupies the first 84% of the physical disk. I deleted the extended DOS partition and logical group that occupied the last 16% of the drive in preparation for the FreeBSD root and swap partitions. I followed the Visual installation process by placing the '/bin' packages into a DOS directory "C:/FREEBSD/BIN", creating a boot/installation disk from the bootstrap programs and then proceeding to follow all instructions for creating a base system (disabling drivers where necessary). The process appear to work up until it was time to place the "/bin" files into the newly created FreeBSD partition. At this point, the Visual installation process informed me that it could not write each block of data onto the partition (write error code -1). What is the problem here?
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