Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 21:33:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Mohammad K Islam <sohel@southwind.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960827213029.339c-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199608280250.VAA03239@onyx.southwind.net>
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On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Mohammad K Islam wrote: > I just bought Freebsd Cd-rom from walnut creek cd-rom and was trying to > do a minimum install. Everything was going fine except when it asked me > for confirmation to install it on a freebsd partition i have created , > after confirming i get msg that "Write failure on transfar...." and after > that i get the msg that "unable to transfer the bin distribution from > wdOs1."(ms-dos partition) This indicates several things. 1) The target disk's geometry is *really* wrong. Try placing a small primary DOS partition on the disk, then delete it and put the FreeBSD slice over it in FreeBSD's fdisk editor. 2) If you used FIPS, you may be running into a problem with it and the msdosfs code on the floppy. Hit ALT-F2 and take a look at the error output when you hit 'commit'. > Since i have a proprietory cd-rom(creative lab cd-rom drive --quad speed), > i was unable to install(novice installation) from cd-rom. So i copied the > dists/bin to c:\freebsd\bin and also floppies directory to > c:\freebsd\floppies. Then i tired to do a minimal installaiton and went > through the process of installing form ms-dos partition but at the end > got the msg mentioned above. Er, Creative CDs _are_ supported under the matcd driver. You just need to configure it appropriately. I think you have to use the soundcard's settings (or something close, I think the port address is slightly higher). > Any help would be greatly appreciated. My machine is a pentium75 with 8 > megs of ram(soon to be upgraded) with a total of 1.2gb Hd (currently > available 847mb) running win95/msdos7.00. Urk. The boot floppy worked? Usually Win95 will interfere with rawrite and screw up the whole thing. 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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