From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 6 18:32:34 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA25177 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 18:32:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA25172 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 18:32:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id NAA01029; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 13:01:58 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199612070231.NAA01029@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA installation problem. In-Reply-To: <199612061801.TAA24851@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from Christoph Kukulies at "Dec 6, 96 07:01:58 pm" To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 13:01:57 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Christoph Kukulies stands accused of saying: > > I'm trying to install 2.2-ALPHA on an IDE drive (120MB, 60MB root, 60MB swap) > minimal installation. At 98% of the bin extract I'm getting > > Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes) > > What could be the cause? Bad hardware (it's a Maxtor 7120 IDE disk) ? You've probably run out of disk space. Go to the holographic shell and look with 'df'. > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de > -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[