Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 07:55:55 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Stein <joes@spiritone.com> To: viking@kern.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <199701301555.HAA00205@joes.spiritone.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970130064529.0068ab3c@kern.com> from "viking@kern.com" at "Jan 30, 97 06:45:30 am"
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> What does "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024)" mean? The > install gets about 15% done and I get this message. I'm installing from a > DOS partition. I've seen this one, too. I finally got desperate when FreeBSD 2.1.6 wouldn't recognize my hard disk OR the CD-ROM (would ID the CD-ROM and the SCSI ctrlr) and kept giving me this message. I finally figured out that "msdos" is not the same file-system configuration as Win95 uses... Are you using Win95? I fixed this by doing what I was going to do anyway and eliminating Win95 from my disk, setting up DOS (only) 5.0; then doing the 2.1.6 install from DOS. Worked perfectly. I just yesterday upgraded to 2.2-BETA and now the CD-ROM works, too! joe
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