Date: Mon, 22 Jan 96 21:04:44 EST From: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD Installation Problems Message-ID: <9601230204.AA27027@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu>
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Hi, I have attempted to install FreeBSD a number of times and have have failed at the same step each time. For the life of me, I cannot figure it out. I have properly? defragged my hard drive and FIPS has successfully created a second 'fat' drive of a size of my choosing. My CDROM is a Matshita CR-581 drive and is hence unsupported by the installation procedure. I then copied the entire contents of e:\dists\bin and e:\floppies to the respective directories c:\FREEBSD\BIN and c:\FREEBSD\FLOPPIES on my sole remaining DOS partition to prepare for the minimal installation. The rest of the steps in the novice installation procedure seem to proceed normally until I start writing the installation process. The beginning of the writing procedure continues normally until I reach the point where it says "Extracting bin into / directory" The message I got was "Write failure on transfer (wrote -1 bytes of 10240 bytes)" Then is says "Unable to transfer bin distribution from wd0s1", the location of my c:\ dos partition. Each time the installation has failed without writing anything. EXCEPT for once when the installation software indicated that it wrote at least 7% of bin into / directory. It then showed the message, "Write failure on transfer", again. I cannot understand what could be wrong here. I am installing FreeBSD on a Packard Bell machine with a Pentium-100MHz processor. It includes PCI Local Bus Video and a PCI Local Bus IDE Hard Drive Interface. It is running Windows 95, and I believe a DOS instalation 6.0 or greater. I admit that before running FIPS, I was unable to remove any Windows Swapfile (if it exists on Windows 95) since the help menu advised me not to tamper with the virtual memory. But I believe that FIPS would have failed to create the partition if this were a problem. Am I correct? Is this a Hardware configuration problem? Please Help! Thank You Jeffrey M. Metcalf
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