Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:00:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Jesse J. Gilleland" <jesseg@dakotacom.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970418145926.14640K-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <01BC4518.4C197640@tuc4.dakotacom.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Jesse J. Gilleland wrote: > Hello. I recently purchased a copy of FreeBSD 2.1.5 (Actually, my place > of business purchased it for me) I am having problems installing it to > my harddrive. First, the system I am installing it to is a 486dx2/80 w/ > 32 megs RAM, 2.5 G harddrive, partitioned 50% to Win95 and the other 50% > is empty. My CD is a Funai-Panasonic (Cheap soundblaster kit) that > FreeBSD doesn't seem to recognize as a drive, so I've copied the DISTS > subdirectory into a FREEBSD directory on my C drive. That happens. > When I boot from the floppy, I can get through the installation, but > when it starts to copy the DISTS from the harddrive, I get an error > "Write failure on transfer (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes) At this point, press ALT-F2 and report what you see. You probably forgot to copy the bin.inf file, or your directory structure is wrong. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.96.970418145926.14640K-100000>