From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 18 15:00:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA06853 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:00:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA06848 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:00:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA14702; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:00:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:00:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Jesse J. Gilleland" cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation problems In-Reply-To: <01BC4518.4C197640@tuc4.dakotacom.net> 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, 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