Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 03:09:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl> To: Jean-Mark Dupoux <jeanm@dupx.freeserve.co.uk> Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: error messages Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910240306410.290-100000@propro.oldserver.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <381250A5.27E0FF47@dupx.freeserve.co.uk>
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On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Jean-Mark Dupoux wrote:
> Is there a listing or any documentation on what error messages mean ?
>
> I get the same message when trying to install from dos-partition or
> from floppies
>
> "write failure on transfer : wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes".
>
> have concluded this installation will probably not get off the ground
> now, release 3.3 just doesnt seem to like my hard drive, although i
> thought this was as standard as could be, but would still be interesing
> to figure out why.
>
I had this problem a few weeks ago. Changed the hard disk and
everything was ok. Not special for 3.3. When that failed I tried 3.1,
of which I have the CD's. That failed as well, with different errors
(forgot what exactly, but) pointing to hard disk.
>
> a freeBSD failure.....
>
No! Hard disk failure ...
Good luck!
Marc
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|| nulla est deliberatio!
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