From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 1 17:31:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA23999 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 17:31:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA23985 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 17:31:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA05071; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 17:31:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 17:31:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Robert Martin cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question on installation In-Reply-To: <327726D5.160F@senna.std.lt> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Robert Martin wrote: > I run into Message 'Write failure on transfer!(wrote -1 bytes of 1024 > bytes) 100%'.It is during installation from DOS partition.I've done > DOS partition 200Mb and for FreeBSD 800Mb.But structure of disk is as > following: What does the debug console (alt-F2) report? > wd0 2112cyls/16heads/63sectors > 0 63 62 6 unused 0 > 64 411201 411263 wd0s1 2 fat 6 > 411264 1717632 2128895 wd0s2 3 freebsd 165 C> > The hard disk is OK because it was formatted with DOS format.May be > second part of 800Mb I should format as well before making partition > to freebsd? Thank you. Certainly NOT! It should remain unallocated. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major