From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 23 18: 9:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4464414EA1 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 1999 18:09:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@oldserver.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.105.241] (helo=propro) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 11fCA3-0000up-00; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 01:09:27 +0000 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 03:09:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders To: Jean-Mark Dupoux Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: error messages In-Reply-To: <381250A5.27E0FF47@dupx.freeserve.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Marc Schneiders || In re tam justa || nulla est deliberatio! marc@venster.nl || marc@oldserver.demon.nl || Acta SS. MM. Scillitanorum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message