Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:07:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Adam Sandman <sandman@xserver.sjc.ox.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems during a Floppy Install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970814000707.2059T-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970813214943.32515C-100000@xserver.sjc>
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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Adam Sandman wrote: > > > Dear Sir/Madam > > I attempted to install FreeBSD from floppy disc (DOS format 1.44) on a > 486DX2 system with an AHA-154x SCSI hard disc controller and Conner > CEP1060S hard disc. The install goes perfectly until it comes to writing > the contents of the first floppy onto the hard disc, whereby I get :- > > "Write failure on transfer! > (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes) > > Do you have any ideas as to what might be causing the problem? Press ALT-F2 and report the error message(s) you see. You probably forgot bin.inf. > I've even performed a low-level format to remove any vestiges of my linux > partitions! That was _overkill_ ;-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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