Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:26:02 -0800 From: whitehat@home.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: floppy install Message-ID: <387D53DA.203390F4@home.com>
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Hi, I am currently trying to re-install FreeBSD 3.3 on my 486, and I am getting an interesting error on the last two disks of my installation floppies. The error says "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes)" I have tried replacing the last two disks numerous times to no avail; so I know that the disks are not damaged. Is it that the files themselves are corrupt? I downloaded the "/bin" directory straight from the FreeBSD ftp site. Previous installation attempts on this 486 went smoothly, but for some reason this attempt is not working. Any idea's to what this error means? Also, is their any way to compress a hard drive in DOS previous to a FreeBSD installation? I really need more space on my 164MB hard drive. Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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