From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 16 07:29:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA07980 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 07:29:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.ppco.com (relay.ppco.com [204.167.250.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA07971 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 07:29:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by relay.ppco.com id AA15154 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 3.0 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org); Mon, 16 Jun 1997 09:29:15 -0500 Received: by relay.ppco.com (Internal Mail Agent-1); Mon, 16 Jun 1997 09:29:15 -0500 Message-Id: <33A54DBC.1B3E@bvemx.ppco.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 15:29:16 +0100 From: Peter Clark Reply-To: pac@bvemx.ppco.com Organization: Phillips Petroleum X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Problem installing FreeBSD Release 2.2.2. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Please can someone help me? I have a problem with installing FreeBSD release 2.2.2 on my PC. I have a new second hard disk, 1.2Gb, running on a PCI/IDE bus in mode 4. I am trying to load FreeBSD onto it, using all of the disk except the 'compatibility' partition at the front, offered to me by the kernel creation process. I am getting a message 'Write ERROR! -1 bytes written of 1024' with a bytes-transferred count which appears to suggest that it is partway through writing from the bin.as file (46056 bytes in). I obtained the /bin software by downloading it from the Internet using Netscape Navigator 3.0, from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.2-RELEASE/bin , onto the C drive of my WindowsNT 4.0 machine at work, and then transferring the DOS files to floppies for use at home. I am using the latest (May 27) boot floppy from ..../newer/boot.flp and have tried installing both from floppies and from a DOS partition (the floppies content dumped to my home PC's C drive - the new disk is the D drive). I have tried downloading the bin files several times, reformatting and reloading the floppies (several different ones), scanning the hard disk both in Win95 and using the bad-blocks scan of the FreeBSD installation process: no bad tracks/blocks. The kernel configuration process seems to go ok: no device conflicts, no apparent nasty messages, no problems with the boot-manager installation or with partitioning the disk. The only things I can think of are that either: (1) the file bin.as is corrupt on the Internet, or (2) Netscape Navigator is somehow corrupting the file as it downloads on my NT machine. Have I come across a bug in Mavigator? Am I missing something in my naivete (I am installing this to learn more about Unix)? I would very much appreciate any assistance you can give me. Pete Clark.