From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 5 17:50:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06946 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:50:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.state.mn.us (mail.state.mn.us [204.73.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA06941 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:50:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ntranby@schools.tec.mn.us) Received: from schools.tec.mn.us by mail.state.mn.us with ESMTP; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 19:51:46 -0600 Received: from RVRAUMAIL/SpoolDir by schools.tec.mn.us (Mercury 1.31); 5 Dec 98 19:49:07 CST Received: from SpoolDir by RVRAUMAIL (Mercury 1.31); 5 Dec 98 19:48:51 CST Received: from patranby.wolf.co.net by schools.tec.mn.us (Mercury 1.31); 5 Dec 98 19:48:50 CST Message-Id: <005401be20bb$0e631420$083469d1@wolf.co.net> Reply-To: "Nik Tranby" From: "Nik Tranby" To: "freebsd-questions" Subject: 2.2.8 install problem Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 19:52:16 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0518.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0518.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok I'm installing version 2.2.8 for the first time, and I have this problem. I'm installing off of floppies for various reasons. I start installing the bin distribution, and when I get to disk 7 (about bin.bk) and it gives me this error message: "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes). Help! What's going on here? -- Nicholas S. Tranby ntranby@schools.tec.mn.us To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message