From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 17 14:47: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imo-d03.mx.aol.com (imo-d03.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE7EF37B423 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 14:47:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wdalli@netscape.net) Received: from wdalli@netscape.net by imo-d03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.10.) id n.b5.3a073b (16216) for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 17:47:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from netscape.com (aimmail09.aim.aol.com [205.188.144.201]) by air-in01.mx.aol.com (v77_r1.37) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 May 2001 17:47:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 17:47:01 -0400 From: wdalli@netscape.net (William Allison) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Write failure on transfer! Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <134674C6.39AF796F.0006DD35@netscape.net> References: <4957F275.156136F2.0006DD35@netscape.net> X-Mailer: Franklin Webmailer 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG wdalli@netscape.net (William Allison) wrote: > > 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 > Here is a little more info, I hit Alt-F2 when it is transferring and I see a lot of invalid checksum and premature end of file errors. I thought that maybe the files were corrupt so I exchanged the set for another. Still no luck. __________________________________________________________________ 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