Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 09:46:20 -0500 From: matt greenslade <MGREENSLADE@CSI.compuserve.com> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Install problem Message-ID: <199711190949_MC2-28BC-2AB7@compuserve.com>
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Hi, I am trying to install a minimum OS (bin and manpages only to start with) on my old Tosh laptop. No CD Rom drive so I'm working from floppies - but thats cool. I got a boot.flp disk which works fine and starts the installation procedure. I choose 'custom' and select just the bin and manpages and I tell it that floppies are incoming media. All goes smoothly until I inserted the disk containing bin.be at which point I get the message 'write failure on transfer: 1 byte of 1024 transferred'. I tried with several other floppies but same problem so am I correct in assuming that this is a corrupt file? I have grabbed half a dozen other copies from various exotic mirror sites around the globe which have exactly the same effect. Even if I run bad block scan before starting....same thing. Anyone got any ideas? Or a working copy of bin.be? thanks, Matt Greenslade
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