From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 16 23:25:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alto.i-cable.com (alto.i-cable.com [210.80.60.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1455A37B422 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 23:25:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lkthomas@hkicable.com) Received: from lau ([61.18.16.156]) by alto.i-cable.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA03483; Thu, 17 May 2001 14:26:17 +0800 (HKT) Message-ID: <001801c0df18$2372d030$9c10123d@lau> From: "Thomas Lau" To: "William Allison" Cc: References: <4957F275.156136F2.0006DD35@netscape.net> Subject: Re: Write failure on transfer! Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 14:27:12 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Allison" To: Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 11:17 PM Subject: Write failure on transfer! > 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 > > try not using auto allocate partitions using Aust are crazy, root / partition only have 200MB! How can you install it ? try to partition your HD by your hard! I got same problem before, but fixed using my hard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message