From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 11 21:49:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA23878 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:49:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA23873 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:49:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA24418; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:49:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:49:13 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Eric M. Forden" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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