From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 12 17: 5:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oscar-wilde.condo.chico.ca.us (adsl-63-207-238-1.dsl.chic01.pacbell.net [63.207.238.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B04C837B418 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 17:05:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (localhost.condo.chico.ca.us [127.0.0.1]) by oscar-wilde.condo.chico.ca.us (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id fAD15J216618; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 17:05:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 17:05:18 -0800 From: Fred Condo To: Keven Swingle Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions on install. Message-ID: <11823028.1005584717@[192.168.1.10]> In-Reply-To: <000f01c16bd9$df44d530$03c9fea9@study2000.com> References: <000f01c16bd9$df44d530$03c9fea9@study2000.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.1 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --On Monday 12 November 2001 19:26 -0500 Keven Swingle wrote: > I am trying to install freeBSD on my system and I am running into the > following error message. > The system that I am installing on is an older amdk6II 475 the current > system config is windows NT 4.0 on disk 1 > and Redhat Linux on Disk 2, with bootmajic used as the boot loader. I am > trying to install FreeBSD on a 175mb partition of free space on disk 2. I > have created the following partitions > 50 mb / > 50 mb swap > 75 mb /usr > everything seems to go well until the file transfer when I recieve the > following error. > extracting /bin into /directiory > "write failure on transfer (wrote 1 bytes of 240640 bytes)" > what could be causing this error and how do I get around it ? Sounds like your filesystem is filling up. You may not be able to do a full install on such a small disk. Switch to the transcript screen with Alt-F2 to see the specific error message. Alt-F1 takes you back to the main screen. -- Fred Condo - fred@condo.chico.ca.us Repeal the DMCA. Stop censoring Felten & Ferguson. http://www.macfergus.com/niels/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message