From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 19 15:24:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA13478 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:24:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13410 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:24:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA00717; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:24:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:24:00 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: wpflum@zdial.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IS IT AT ALL POSSIBLE TO INSTALL FROM FLOPPY!!!!!!!!! In-Reply-To: <01bd3cdf$b4955120$759307c6@pflum> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Feb 1998 wpflum@zdial.com wrote: > 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 You probably have bad memory modules. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message