From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 16 23:17:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imo-m07.mx.aol.com (imo-m07.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9262B37B422 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 23:17:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wdalli@netscape.net) Received: from wdalli@netscape.net by imo-m07.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.10.) id n.19.159f27e (16219) for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 02:17:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from netscape.com (aimmail02.aim.aol.com [205.188.144.194]) by air-in01.mx.aol.com (v77_r1.37) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 May 2001 02:17:15 -0400 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! Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4957F275.156136F2.0006DD35@netscape.net> X-Mailer: Franklin Webmailer 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 __________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message