From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 27 15:25:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25031 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:25:33 -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 PAA24818 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:24:28 -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 PAA11136; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:21:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:21:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Frank Wang cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A Question about free-bsd. In-Reply-To: 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message