From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 30 02:41:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA27068 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 02:41:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from infolink3.infolink.net (root@infolink3.infolink.net [202.68.28.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA27043 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 02:40:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fade (fading@csd1-27.infolink.net [202.68.1.59]) by infolink3.infolink.net (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA13715 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 09:49:44 GMT Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960630093941.0068c1e8@infolink.net> X-Sender: fade@infolink.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 17:39:41 +0800 To: freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG From: Benjamin Lim Subject: Install problem with 2.2 Snap Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi there. I'm having some trouble installing the latest version of FreeBSD 2.2 Snap. I've downloaded most of the important files and placed it in the c:\freebsd directory: c:\freebsd\bin c:\freebsd\doct c:\freebsd\doc c:\freebsd\floppies c:\freebsd\games c:\freebsd\info c:\freebsd\manpages c:\freebsd\proflibs c:\freebsd\xf86312 Why i got FreeBSD 2.2 snap was because it is the only version of Freebsd that supports my Hard Disk controller which is an adaptec 7850. Here are the specs of my system from the manual: P54TS--CPU Pentium P54C/P55C with a Pentium 166 Chip Adaptec PCI Fast scsi-2 port Dual enhanced IDE ports 256K pipeline burst cache on board two 16550 Uart Ports ECP/EPP/SPP/Bi-direction parallel port Upto 2.88 MB FDC port Bios: Award Bios, p&p setup for adaptec scsi. enhanced ide and multi-OP. Both flash rom. Fast/wide/ultra SCSI-2 Interface: P54TS built in Adaptec AIC-7850 chip for PCI fast scsi-2 Date Transfer rate up to 10MB/Sec for 8 bit Fast SCSI-2 I have 32 MB of ram. The other stuff is not relevent so i dont' think i will print it. My hard disk is a Hawk 2LP Family: ST32430N/ND 2 GIGS Checking with PFDISK, this is the info it prints out: # Partition table on device: 0 geometry 261 255 63 (cyls heads sectors) # ID First(cyl) Last(cyl) Name # start, length (sectors) 1 6 0 197 DOSbi # 63, 3180807 (there is no partition 2 because i havn't created the freebsd partition yet) When I try and Install FREEBSD, at the start of the bin distrubution and the others I get this error: "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 10240 bytes)" What is the problem? I am installing from another partition of my hard disk and as far as I can tell, freebsd install doesn't even read from it but only displays the error! _ _ Benjamin | (_)_ __ ___ a.k.a FaDe | | | '_ ` _ \ fade@infolink.net | | | | | | | |spin@iohk.com |_|_|_| |_| |_|http://www.infolink.net/~fade/