From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 18 18:47:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA17779 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:47:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.sym-link.net (smtp.sym-link.net [198.7.147.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA17563 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:45:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wpflum@zdial.com) From: wpflum@zdial.com Received: from pflum (dial-117-p1.zdial.com [198.7.147.117]) by www.sym-link.net (Netscape Messaging Server 3.01) with SMTP id 239 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 21:35:44 -0500 To: Subject: Re: IS IT AT ALL POSSIBLE TO INSTALL FROM FLOPPY!!!!!!!!! Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 21:40:12 -0500 Message-ID: <01bd3cdf$b4955120$759307c6@pflum> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Who do I have to maim, mutilate or know to get this STUPID LOUSY program to install!!!!!!! I've been trying to install from floppy to a small system, 386 SX 20, 245 meg drive, 8 meg memory and I get as far as past setup and drive setup and to media installation and inserting the first install disk and after a few seconds I get a "WRITE FAILURE ON TRANSFER (WROTE -1 BYTES OF 1024 BYTES)". The debug screen says- DEBUG: REQUEST FOR /DIST/BIN/BIN.AA FROM FLOPPY ON /DIST, PROBE 0. PID 53 (GUNZIP), UID 0: EXITED ON SIGNAL 11 (CORE DUMPED) /STAND/CPIO: PREMATURE END OF ARCHIVE What am I doing wrong!!!!! Wonderful free program!! I'm glad its free I'm not sure I'd pay for it!! If its this hard just to install the bin and man then maybe I'll just buy a commercial program, at least I can call and get help!!!!!!! I've tried different floppies, different drives and install bins from different ftp sites, nothing works and it looks like all every 'faq' out there deals with is with CD installs or "It wont recognize my cheapie net card,vga card,etc". Please can someone shed some light?????? Frustrated user To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message