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Date:      Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:21:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Frank Wang <Frank_Wang@ccm.iprc.intel.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A Question about free-bsd.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980227152106.11077M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Fri, 27 Feb 98 11:10:01 PST_2@ccm.hf.intel.com>

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On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Frank Wang wrote:

>      I downloaded all files from 
>      ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.5-RELEASE/bin, but I can't 
>      install it both from floppy disk or DOS partition. Every time when the 
>      BSD installer retreives infomation from file bin.ai, it shows an error 
>      message: Write failure in transfer(wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes). I 
>      have tried almost all the different brend motherboards in our 
>      lab(440LX shipset), the same problem. 

Press ALT-F2 and see what the debug console reports.

>      bin.ai is not 240640 but 239647. I wonder whether the error is caused 
>      by this. I am the beginner about FreeBSD. So forgive me if it is not 
>      that case.

Try re-downloading bin.ai.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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