From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 19 4:45:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3.jaring.my (relay3.jaring.my [192.228.128.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9EA637B423 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 04:45:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop.jaring.my (j133.sgw47.jaring.my [161.142.192.147]) by relay3.jaring.my (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA28403 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 19:45:34 +0800 (MYT) Message-ID: <399E74FE.66841959@pop.jaring.my> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 19:52:30 +0800 From: K H Tan Organization: Netline Communications Sdn Bhd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Newbie installation problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have the ver 4.1 FTPed to my harddisk and then burned to a CD. It boots ok. I was able to see the files and directories on the CD using Win98. When I boot up the CD, it tells me about the interrupts and such...there was no conflict. Then it does the partitioning and I choose a unused 3Gbyte partition, create it and set it to bootable. Evrything from making newfs, FreeBSD boot manager up to choosing standard installation was fine. Problem is that when it starts to copy /bin files, I got this error message - "Write failure on transfer" (wrote -1 bytes of 240640 bytes) I retried and it gave me the same error. I cancel and continue and sometimes the error message is - "Unable to transfer the XXX distribution from acd0c" I assume acd0c is the CDROM. When I boot up, it gave me an option to boot up Win98 or FreeBSD, but it couldn't find the kernel. What did I do wrong? FYI, my PC's has 128 Mb RAM, AMD k6-2 500 Mhz, 10 Gbyte hard disk, no NIC, no sound card with NVidia TNT2 M64 vga card. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message