Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:49:13 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Eric M. Forden" <forden@buffnet.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961111214701.24357J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961110215334.25772A-100000@buffnet7.buffnet.net>
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On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Eric M. Forden wrote:
> I am running Win95 on one hard drive in my machine. I downloaded the bin,
> des, dict, doc, manpages, proflibs, and info directories from
> ft.freebsd.org into C:\FREEBSD and I would like to install FreeBSD on a
> second hard drive which has nothing on it. When I go through the boot
> floppy and get everything set up, the commit program is giving me
> problems. When it starts to copy the files, it gives an error: 'Write
> failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024)'.
Did you put the files into their separate directories?
It should look like :
C:\FREEBSD
| | | |
\/ \/ \/ \/
BIN\BIN.* DICT\DICT.* DOC\DOC.* MANPAGES\MANPAGES.*
Be sure the respective *.inf files are in the proper directories.
Take a look at the debug output by pressing ALT-F2 and see what error
messages you're getting.
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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