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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2001 02:17:15 -0400
From:      wdalli@netscape.net (William Allison)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Write failure on transfer!
Message-ID:  <4957F275.156136F2.0006DD35@netscape.net>

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Hello all,
Was hoping to get some advice on an installation issue.  I've been trying to install FreeBSD Power Pak 4.2 on a Micron Home MPC 200 MMX, equipped with 96 MB RAM, a Wester Digital AC310200R 10 GB IDE HDD, Hitachi CDR-8130 ATAPI CD-ROM, Diamond Stealth III S540 PCI and an integrated SB32 PnP sound card.
I have the PnP OS setting in the BIOS set to "No", and Large Disk Access Mode set to "Other". (It says to do this if not using DOS)
I rid myself of seven conflicts in the UserConfig menu, when I get to sysinstall, I choose the recomended standard installation.  In fdisk I select A for Use Entire Disk and then A again to auto allocate partitions.
Here is where the trouble comes, when extracting bin to / the "Write failure on transfer!" message appears, I've tried to repeat it to no avail.
It happens on extracting doc, manpages, dict etc... to /. But it will transfer the needed files to /usr afterwards.  But of course it will not boot.
I have installed a number of Linux distros on this same machine without problem, RHL 5.2 - 7.1, SuSE, and Mandrake.  Any ideas?
Thank you,
William
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